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

       -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⟩.