Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Mac build with internationalization (?)

[Tim H. <ho...@wu...>]

On Friday 09 May 2008, David Bruce wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> On Wednesday 07 May 2008 10:43:08 am Tim Holy wrote:
> > I may have a Mac build with internationalization supported (as usual, I
> > can't test it myself).
>
> Just curious - is this a cross-build on linux?  Anyway, it works!

Hey, great! It's a native build (and universal binary) on the Mac. I got the 
CMake support to the point that it can also build the code in the intl/ 
directory---mainly that just required figuring out how to make any 
necessary "configure"-type checks. (See the file ConfigureChecksIntl.cmake in 
the cmake-modules directory.)

The one oddity is that our in-tree intl code is (quite sensibly) just for 
gettext-runtime, but to actually process the .po files one needs the full 
gettext-tools (i.e., msgfmt). So for now the best thing to do is to build on 
a Mac that has the full support, and get a binary that includes the runtime. 
I suppose this isn't so different from the fact that the building machine 
needs a compiler, but the end product can run on machines that don't have 
one.

Now that I know this works, I'll add some documentation to the INSTALL file.

>
> > To change your localization: from the shell, you'll first have to do
> > an "export LANG=nn_NO" or somesuch (alternatively, "export
> > LANGUAGE=nn_NO") depending on whether you're running bash or some other
> > shell. Then launch tuxmath from the command line.
>
> For "regular" Mac users, the GUI way is using System
> Preferences->International->Formats->Region.  (It is a little confusing,
> because System Preferences->International->Languages would seem to be the
> way to set this, but it isn't - it just sets the language for the Finder
> and maybe other system menus, but not for third-party apps).

Ah, thanks.

>
> I can put this binary up later today.

Given the recent Ubuntu issues, should we do a full new release, with Pango 
support on Linux and everything-but-Pango on Mac? (Alex: where did you get 
SDL_Pango for the Mac? I can't find a pre-built framework.)

Before we make a release, perhaps we should also address the other 
translation-related issues? See my next email. If we add a bunch of new 
translations, I'll build a new .dmg for Macs before you upload it.

Best,
--Tim

>
> Thanks!