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msgcc [-M-option] [cc-optionsoption] file...
msgcc is a C language message catalog compiler. It accepts cc style options and arguments.
A msgcpp(1) .mso file is generated for each input .c file. If the -c option is not specified then a gencat(1) format .msg file is generated from the input .mso and .msg files. If -c is not specified then a .msg suffix is appended to the -o file if it doesn't already have a suffix. The default output is a.out.msg if -c and -o are not specified.
If -M-new is not specified then messages are merged with those in the pre-existing -o file.
The following options are supported:
cc-options
Specify cc style options and arguments.
-M-option
Set a msgcc option. Specify option as one of the following:
mkmsgs
The -o file is assumed to be in mkmsgs(1) format.
new
Create a new -o file.
preserve
Messages in the -o file that are not in new .msg file arguments are preserved. The default is to either reuse the message numbers with new message text that is similar to the old or to delete the message text, leaving an unused message number.
set=number
Set the message set number to number. The default is 1.
similar=number
The message text similarity message threshold. The similarity measure between old and new message text is:
100*(2*gzip(old+new)\e /(gzip(old)+gzip(new))-1)where gzip(x) is the size of text x when compressed by gzip. The default threshold is $__similar__$.A threshold of 0 turns off message replacement, but unused old messages are still deleted. Use -M-preserve to preserve all old messages.
verbose
Trace similar message replacements on the standard error.
The following operands are supported:
file
Specifies the name of the file on which msgcc operates.
0
Successful completion.
>0
An error occurred.
Example 1 Using msgcc
The following example uses msgcc to extract localizable strings from the file hello.c, marked using ERROR_dictionary(), writes them to the file hello.mso, and creates a gencat format xxx.msg file:
example% cat hello.c #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> /* * dummy macro to avoid including * libast headers */ #define ERROR_dictionary(x) x int main(int ac, char *av[]) { puts( ERROR_dictionary("hello world") ); return( EXIT_SUCCESS ); } example% msgcc -o xxx -D__STDC__ -D__i386 hello.c example% cat hello.mso str "hello world" example% cat xxx.msg $ xxx message catalog $translation msgcc 2007-09-25 $set 1 $quote " 1 "hello world"
Glenn Fowler, gsf@research.att.com
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
| Availability | developer/astdev |
| Interface Stability | Volatile |
cpp(1), gencat(1), mkmsgs(1), msggen(1), msgcpp(1), msgcvt(1), attributes(7)