Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] *SDL2* translation does not work on the latest MinGW/MSYS2

[Shin-ichi T. <sh...@wm...>]

Hi!

I tried a test code as follows.

$ cat test.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <libintl.h>

int main(void)
{
  setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
  bindtextdomain("tuxpaint", "locale");
  bind_textdomain_codeset("tuxpaint", "UTF-8");
  textdomain("tuxpaint");
  puts(gettext("Yes, I'm done!"));
  return 0;
}

$ gcc test.c -o test.exe -lintl

I copied this .exe file to the bdist directory and executed it from
windows command prompt.

Then, it DOES translate.

I am quite at a loss what is happening....


On Sun, 30 Jan 2022 00:31:53 +0100, Pere Pujal i Carabantes wrote:
>El ds. 29 de 01 de 2022 a les 10:31 +0900, en/na Shin-ichi TOYAMA va escriure:
>> Hi!
>> 
>> I noticed an interesting thing about this issue.
>> 
>> You can install tuxpaint in /usr/local/bin on MSYS2 environment
>> as follows.
>> 
>>   $ make && make install
>
>I get permission denied, strange
> /usr/local/bin/tuxpaint.exe --help
>bash: /usr/local/bin/tuxpaint.exe: Permission denied
>
>> 
>> Then it has NO problem with translation!!
>> 
>> Next, I tried deleting all the .dll files in /mingw64/bin/ except
>> for those are copied to the win32/bdist directory, suspecting that
>> there might be some dll(s) newly required by gettext.
>> 
>> As a result, it still worked fine!
>> 
>> Considering above, it may not be a library loading issue.
>
>I did a different test that seems to lead also to this conclusion:
>compile a bdist dir with the old mingw, make a backup of it
>compile another bdist with the new mingw, also backup it
>create an empty dir and copy there the backup of the non working bdist, 
>then one by one copy the dlls of the working bdist into it 
>until the translations works.
>
>the least dlls that I had to copy from the old, working bdist dir are
>libintl and harfbuzz(wich depends on libintl)
>
>> 
>> Could it be that tuxpaint fails to find the translation (.mo) files ?
>
>Maybe, but even putting the full locale path in i18n.c I could not get it working
>
> Replacing bindtextdomain("tuxpaint", LOCALEDIR);  with
> bindtextdomain("tuxpaint", "/e/home/tuxpaint-sdl2/win32/bdist/locale/");
>did not solve things for me.