On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 12:01:25PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > > The compiled binary seems to have some locale > > problem since the screen display is messed up. > > There is an error message: 'locale en_US could not be set."
This one can be safely ignored. There is no locale support with mingw and cygwin. This is a patch that I apply to src/messages.C to avoid that bogus warning: --- src/messages.C.orig 2006-08-17 17:36:46.000000000 +0200 +++ src/messages.C 2006-09-06 19:16:44.000000000 +0200 @@ -126,10 +126,10 @@ #endif // setlocale fails (returns NULL) if the corresponding locale // is not installed. - // On windows (mingw) it always returns NULL. + // On windows (mingw and cygwin) it always returns NULL. // Since this method gets called for every translatable // buffer string like e.g. "Figure:" we warn only once. -#ifndef _WIN32 +#if !defined(_WIN32) && !defined(__CYGWIN__) static bool warned = false; if (!warned && !lc_msgs) { warned = true; -- Enrico