msgcc(1) User Commands msgcc(1)NAMEmsgcc - C language message catalog compiler
SYNOPSISmsgcc [-M-option] [cc-optionsoption] file...
DESCRIPTIONmsgcc 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.
OPTIONS
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 mes‐
sage 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)\
/(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.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
file Specifies the name of the file on which msgcc operates.
EXIT STATUS
0 Successful completion.
>0 An error occurred.
EXAMPLES
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"
AUTHORS
Glenn Fowler, gsf@research.att.com
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │developer/astdev │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Interface Stability │Volatile │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOcpp(1), gencat(1), mkmsgs(1), msggen(1), msgcpp(1), msgcvt(1),
attributes(5)SunOS 5.11 9 Oct 2007 msgcc(1)
