NAME

       wmc - Wine Message Compiler

SYNOPSIS

       wmc [options] [inputfile]

DESCRIPTION

       wmc  compiles  messages  from  inputfile  into  FormatMessage[AW]  compatible  format  encapsulated  in a
       resourcescript format.  wmc outputs the data either in a standard .bin  formatted  binary  file,  or  can
       generated inline resource data.

       wmc  takes  only  one  inputfile  as  argument  (see BUGS). The inputfile normally has extension .mc. The
       messages are read from standard input if no inputfile is given. If the outputfile is not  specified  with
       -o,  then  wmc  will  write the output to inputfile.{rc,h}.  The outputfile is named wmc.tab.{rc,h} if no
       inputfile was given.

OPTIONS

       -B x   Set output byte-order x={n[ative], l[ittle], b[ig]}. Default is n[ative].

       -c     Set 'custom-bit' in message-code values.

       -d     NON-FUNCTIONAL; Use decimal values in output

       -D     Set debug flag. This results is a parser trace and a lot of extra messages.

       -h, --help
              Print an informative usage message and exits.

       -H file
              Write headerfile to file. Default is inputfile.h.

       -i     Inline messagetable(s). This option skips the generation of all .bin files and writes  all  output
              into the .rc file. This encoding is parsable with wrc(1).

       --nls-dir=directory
              Specify the directory to search for the NLS files containing the codepage mapping tables.

       -o, --output=file
              Output to file. Default is inputfile.rc.

       -O, --output-format=format
              Set the output format. Supported formats are rc (the default), res, and pot.

       -P, --po-dir=directory
              Enable  the  generation  of  resource  translations  based  on  po files loaded from the specified
              directory. That directory must follow the gettext convention, in particular in  must  contain  one
              .po file for each language, and a LINGUAS file listing the available languages.

       -u     Assume that the input file is in Unicode or UTF-8 format and skip codepage conversions.

       -v     Show all supported codepages and languages.

       -V, --version
              Print version end exit.

       -W, --pedantic
              Enable pedantic warnings.

EXTENSIONS

       The  original syntax is extended to support codepages more smoothly. Normally, codepages are based on the
       DOS codepage from the language setting. The original syntax only allows the destination  codepage  to  be
       set. However, this is not enough for non-DOS systems which do not use unicode source-files.

       A  new  keyword  Codepages is introduced to set both input and output codepages to anything one wants for
       each language. The syntax is similar to the other constructs:

       Codepages '=' '(' language '=' cpin ':' cpout ... ')'

       The language is the numerical language-ID or the alias set with LanguageNames. The  input  codepage  cpin
       and  output  codepage  cpout  are  the  numerical codepage IDs. There can be multiple mappings within the
       definition and the definition may occur more than once.

AUTHORS

       wmc was written by Bertho A. Stultiens.

BUGS

       The message compiler should be able to have multiple input files and combine them into one  output  file.
       This would enable the splitting of languages into separate files.

       Decimal  output is completely lacking. Don't know whether it should be implemented because it is a, well,
       non-informative format change. It is recognized on the commandline for some form of compatibility.

       Bugs can be reported on the Wine bug tracker ⟨https://bugs.winehq.org⟩.

AVAILABILITY

       wmc is part  of  the  Wine  distribution,  which  is  available  through  WineHQ,  the  Wine  development
       headquarters ⟨https://www.winehq.org/⟩.

SEE ALSO

       wine(1), wrc(1),
       Wine documentation and support ⟨https://www.winehq.org/help⟩.