On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Henry Nelson wrote: > I think I saw somewhere that the "gettext" tools (what you want if you're > going to get into translating the messages) had been ported to Windows, but > unfortunately I don't have the slightest idea how they work on Windows.
The MingW version of lynx which I have been porting (but not yet distributing) is compiled with NLS and seems to work fine. I linked it with gettext-0.11.5 which I ported to MingW last year. I generally compile MingW programs under Cygwin with -mno-cygwin and don't have any experience with the native MingW MSYS environment. I see from the MingW web page that there is an "official" port of gettext to mingw. I haven't looked to see if what I did matched that port or not. At least with the version I am using, you specify the environment variable "LYNX_LOCALEDIR" unless the locale directory is the same as the default compiled into gettext. The utilities (msgfmt and xgettext) work the same as on unix, but when building under Cygwin for MingW, the Cygwin utilities are used to make the .gmo files. Just specify the LANG and possibly the LANGUAGE environment variables and lynx uses the lynx.mo file installed in the $LYNX_LOCALEDIR/$LANG/LC_MESSAGES directory. I am happy to send the patch file that I used for porting gettext to anyone interested. For a Cygwin build of lynx, gettext is part of the Cygwin system and should work "out of the box". I haven't built a pure Cygwin lynx since 2.8.5pre.3 in February 2004, however, and I built that without NLS, so I can't comment from personal experience. By the way, if anyone is interested in doing translations for lynx, be sure to first read the information from the translation project web page "http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/";, then sign up to be part of the translation team. Doug -- Doug Kaufman Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
