NAME

       uil  —  The  user  interface  language  compiler "user interface language" "user interface
       language" "compiler" "uil" "uil" "compiler"

SYNOPSIS

       uil [options ]  [file]

DESCRIPTION

       The uil command invokes  the  UIL  compiler.  The  User  Interface  Language  (UIL)  is  a
       specification  language  for  describing the initial state of a user interface for a Motif
       application. The specification describes the objects (menus, dialog  boxes,  labels,  push
       buttons, and so on) used in the interface and specifies the routines to be called when the
       interface changes state as a result of user interaction.

       file      Specifies the file to be compiled through the UIL compiler.

       options   Specifies one or more of the following options:

                 -Ipathname
                           This option causes the compiler to  look  for  include  files  in  the
                           directory  specified  if  the include files have not been found in the
                           paths that already were searched.  Specify this option followed  by  a
                           pathname, with no intervening spaces.

                 -m        Machine  code  is  listed.  This  directs the compiler to place in the
                           listing file a description of the records that it added  to  the  User
                           Interface  Database  (UID). This helps you isolate errors. The default
                           is no machine code.

                 -o file   "user interface database" "uid file"

                           Directs the compiler to produce a UID.  By default, UIL creates a  UID
                           with the name a.uid.  The file specifies the filename for the UID.  No
                           UID is produced if the compiler issues any diagnostics categorized  as
                           error  or  severe.  UIDs  are  portable  only across same-size machine
                           architectures.

                 -s        Directs the compiler to set the locale  before  compiling  any  files.
                           The  locale  is set in an implementation-dependent manner.  On ANSI C-
                           based systems, the locale is usually set by calling  setlocale(LC_ALL,
                           "").   If  this option is not specified, the compiler does not set the
                           locale.

                 -v file   Directs the compiler to generate a listing.  The  file  specifies  the
                           filename for the listing.  If the -v option is not present, no listing
                           is generated by the compiler.  The default is no listing.

                 -w        Specifies that the compiler suppress  all  warning  and  informational
                           messages.   If this option is not present, all messages are generated,
                           regardless of the severity.

                 -wmd file Specifies a binary widget meta-language description file to be used in
                           place of the default WML description.

RELATED INFORMATION

       X(1) and Uil(3).

                                                                                           uil(1)