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NAME

wmc - Wine Message Compiler

SYNOPSIS

wmc [options] [inputfile]

DESCRIPTION

wmc compiles messages from inputfile into FormatMessage[AW]
compatible format encapsulated in a resourcescript format. wmc
outputs the data either in a standard .bin formatted binary file, or
can generated inline resource data.

wmc takes only one inputfile as argument (see BUGS). The inputfile
normally has extension .mc. The messages are read from standard input
if no inputfile is given. If the outputfile is not specified with -o,
then wmc will write the output to inputfile.{rc,h}. The outputfile
is named wmc.tab.{rc,h} if no inputfile was given.

OPTIONS

-B x Set output byte-order x={n[ative], l[ittle], b[ig]}. Default
is n[ative].

-c Set 'custom-bit' in message-code values.

-d NON-FUNCTIONAL; Use decimal values in output

-D Set debug flag. This results is a parser trace and a lot of
extra messages.

-h, --help
Print an informative usage message and exits.

-H file
Write headerfile to file. Default is inputfile.h.

-i Inline messagetable(s). This option skips the generation of
all .bin files and writes all output into the .rc file. This
encoding is parsable with wrc(1).

-o, --output=file
Output to file. Default is inputfile.rc.

-O, --output-format=format
Set the output format. Supported formats are rc (the default),
res, and pot.

-P, --po-dir=directory
Enable the generation of resource translations based on po
files loaded from the specified directory. That directory must
follow the gettext convention, in particular in must contain
one .po file for each language, and a LINGUAS file listing the
available languages.

-u Assume that the inputfile is in unicode.

-U Write resource output in unicode formatted messagetable(s).

-v Show all supported codepages and languages.

-V, --version
Print version end exit.

-W, --pedantic
Enable pedantic warnings.

EXTENSIONS

The original syntax is extended to support codepages more smoothly.
Normally, codepages are based on the DOS codepage from the language
setting. The original syntax only allows the destination codepage to
be set. However, this is not enough for non-DOS systems which do not
use unicode source-files.

A new keyword Codepages is introduced to set both input and output
codepages to anything one wants for each language. The syntax is
similar to the other constructs:

Codepages '=' '(' language '=' cpin ':' cpout ... ')'

The language is the numerical language-ID or the alias set with
LanguageNames. The input codepage cpin and output codepage cpout are
the numerical codepage IDs. There can be multiple mappings within the
definition and the definition may occur more than once.

AUTHORS

wmc was written by Bertho A. Stultiens.

BUGS

The message compiler should be able to have multiple input files and
combine them into one output file. This would enable the splitting of
languages into separate files.

Unicode detection of the input is suboptimal, to say the least. It
should recognize byte order marks (BOM) and decide what to do.

Decimal output is completely lacking. Don't know whether it should be
implemented because it is a, well, non-informative format change. It
is recognized on the commandline for some form of compatibility.

Bugs can be reported on the Wine bug tracker
<https://bugs.winehq.org>.

AVAILABILITY

wmc is part of the Wine distribution, which is available through
WineHQ, the Wine development headquarters <https://www.winehq.org/>.