NAME¶
windmc - generates Windows message resources.
SYNOPSIS¶
windmc [options] input-file
DESCRIPTION¶
windmc reads message definitions from an input file (.mc) and translate
them into a set of output files. The output files may be of four kinds:
- "h"
- A C header file containing the message definitions.
- "rc"
- A resource file compilable by the windres tool.
- "bin"
- One or more binary files containing the resource data for a specific
message language.
- "dbg"
- A C include file that maps message id's to their symbolic name.
The exact description of these different formats is available in documentation
from Microsoft.
When
windmc converts from the "mc" format to the
"bin" format, "rc", "h", and optional
"dbg" it is acting like the Windows Message Compiler.
OPTIONS¶
- -a
- --ascii_in
- Specifies that the input file specified is ASCII. This is the default
behaviour.
- -A
- --ascii_out
- Specifies that messages in the output "bin" files should be in
ASCII format.
- -b
- --binprefix
- Specifies that "bin" filenames should have to be prefixed by the
basename of the source file.
- -c
- --customflag
- Sets the customer bit in all message id's.
- -C codepage
- --codepage_in codepage
- Sets the default codepage to be used to convert input file to UTF16. The
default is ocdepage 1252.
- -d
- --decimal_values
- Outputs the constants in the header file in decimal. Default is using
hexadecimal output.
- -e ext
- --extension ext
- The extension for the header file. The default is .h extension.
- -F target
- --target target
- Specify the BFD format to use for a bin file as output. This is a BFD
target name; you can use the --help option to see a list of
supported targets. Normally windmc will use the default format,
which is the first one listed by the --help option.
- -h path
- --headerdir path
- The target directory of the generated header file. The default is the
current directory.
- -H
- --help
- Displays a list of command line options and then exits.
- -m characters
- --maxlength characters
- Instructs windmc to generate a warning if the length of any message
exceeds the number specified.
- -n
- --nullterminate
- Terminate message text in "bin" files by zero. By default they
are terminated by CR/LF.
- -o
- --hresult_use
- Not yet implemented. Instructs "windmc" to generate an OLE2
header file, using HRESULT definitions. Status codes are used if the flag
is not specified.
- -O codepage
- --codepage_out codepage
- Sets the default codepage to be used to output text files. The default is
ocdepage 1252.
- -r path
- --rcdir path
- The target directory for the generated "rc" script and the
generated "bin" files that the resource compiler script
includes. The default is the current directory.
- -u
- --unicode_in
- Specifies that the input file is UTF16.
- -U
- --unicode_out
- Specifies that messages in the output "bin" file should be in
UTF16 format. This is the default behaviour.
- -v
- --verbose
- Enable verbose mode.
- -V
- --version
- Prints the version number for windmc.
- -x path
- --xdgb path
- The path of the "dbg" C include file that maps message id's to
the symbolic name. No such file is generated without specifying the
switch.
- @file
- Read command-line options from file. The options read are inserted
in place of the original @ file option. If file does not
exist, or cannot be read, then the option will be treated literally, and
not removed.
Options in file are separated by whitespace. A whitespace character
may be included in an option by surrounding the entire option in either
single or double quotes. Any character (including a backslash) may be
included by prefixing the character to be included with a backslash. The
file may itself contain additional @ file options; any such
options will be processed recursively.
SEE ALSO¶
the Info entries for
binutils.
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright (c) 1991-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the
terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version
published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no
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