gettext-x86_x64

Native Visual Studio project files to compile gettext (aka libintl) on Windows

Background

Compiling libintl on Windows requires a unix-like development environment (like cygwin or mingw32). This allows you to compile natively using Visual Studio

Compiling

This project provides native Visual Studio solution/project files that can be used to compile gettext on Windows.

Installation

• git clone gettext, tested with v0.20.1 into a local folder
• When you clone gettext, you might also clone a submodule called gnulib. This is not necessary. You can turn off the recursive flag while cloning.
• git clone gettext-x86_x64
• Copy the build folder into the root folder of gettext source tree.
• This is based off of karhl's gettext-msvc
• There is a small step to generate plural.c/h from plural.y. This requires utilities like bison and sed. I have provided the generated plural.c/h. In case there are problems with this file, go back to generating this file from the canonical plural.y. Instructions can be found in Makefile.am in the same folder as plural.y

Note

To compile gettext, you need

• libiconv, tested w/ v1.16