1<html lang="en"> 2<head> 3<title>windmc - GNU Binary Utilities</title> 4<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> 5<meta name="description" content="GNU Binary Utilities"> 6<meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> 7<link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> 8<link rel="prev" href="nlmconv.html#nlmconv" title="nlmconv"> 9<link rel="next" href="windres.html#windres" title="windres"> 10<link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> 11<!-- 12Copyright (C) 1991-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 13 14Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document 15under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 16or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; 17with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no 18Back-Cover Texts. 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The output files may be of 63four kinds: 64 65 <dl> 66<dt><code>h</code><dd>A C header file containing the message definitions. 67 68 <br><dt><code>rc</code><dd>A resource file compilable by the <samp><span class="command">windres</span></samp> tool. 69 70 <br><dt><code>bin</code><dd>One or more binary files containing the resource data for a specific 71message language. 72 73 <br><dt><code>dbg</code><dd>A C include file that maps message id's to their symbolic name. 74</dl> 75 76 <p>The exact description of these different formats is available in 77documentation from Microsoft. 78 79 <p>When <samp><span class="command">windmc</span></samp> converts from the <code>mc</code> format to the <code>bin</code> 80format, <code>rc</code>, <code>h</code>, and optional <code>dbg</code> it is acting like the 81Windows Message Compiler. 82 83<!-- man end --> 84<!-- man begin OPTIONS windmc --> 85 <dl> 86<dt><samp><span class="env">-a</span></samp><dt><samp><span class="env">--ascii_in</span></samp><dd>Specifies that the input file specified is ASCII. This is the default 87behaviour. 88 89 <br><dt><samp><span class="env">-A</span></samp><dt><samp><span class="env">--ascii_out</span></samp><dd>Specifies that messages in the output <code>bin</code> files should be in ASCII 90format. 91 92 <br><dt><samp><span class="env">-b</span></samp><dt><samp><span class="env">--binprefix</span></samp><dd>Specifies that <code>bin</code> filenames should have to be prefixed by the 93basename of the source file. 94 95 <br><dt><samp><span class="env">-c</span></samp><dt><samp><span class="env">--customflag</span></samp><dd>Sets the customer bit in all message id's. 96 97 <br><dt><samp><span class="env">-C </span><var>codepage</var></samp><dt><samp><span class="env">--codepage_in </span><var>codepage</var></samp><dd>Sets the default codepage to be used to convert input file to UTF16. The 98default is ocdepage 1252. 99 100 <br><dt><samp><span class="env">-d</span></samp><dt><samp><span class="env">--decimal_values</span></samp><dd>Outputs the constants in the header file in decimal. Default is using 101hexadecimal output. 102 103 <br><dt><samp><span class="env">-e </span><var>ext</var></samp><dt><samp><span class="env">--extension </span><var>ext</var></samp><dd>The extension for the header file. The default is .h extension. 104 105 <br><dt><samp><span class="env">-F </span><var>target</var></samp><dt><samp><span class="env">--target </span><var>target</var></samp><dd>Specify the BFD format to use for a bin file as output. This 106is a BFD target name; you can use the <samp><span class="option">--help</span></samp> option to see a list 107of supported targets. Normally <samp><span class="command">windmc</span></samp> will use the default 108format, which is the first one listed by the <samp><span class="option">--help</span></samp> option. 109<a href="Target-Selection.html#Target-Selection">Target Selection</a>. 110 111 <br><dt><samp><span class="env">-h </span><var>path</var></samp><dt><samp><span class="env">--headerdir </span><var>path</var></samp><dd>The target directory of the generated header file. The default is the 112current directory. 113 114 <br><dt><samp><span class="env">-H</span></samp><dt><samp><span class="env">--help</span></samp><dd>Displays a list of command line options and then exits. 115 116 <br><dt><samp><span class="env">-m </span><var>characters</var></samp><dt><samp><span class="env">--maxlength </span><var>characters</var></samp><dd>Instructs <samp><span class="command">windmc</span></samp> to generate a warning if the length 117of any message exceeds the number specified. 118 119 <br><dt><samp><span class="env">-n</span></samp><dt><samp><span class="env">--nullterminate</span></samp><dd>Terminate message text in <code>bin</code> files by zero. By default they are 120terminated by CR/LF. 121 122 <br><dt><samp><span class="env">-o</span></samp><dt><samp><span class="env">--hresult_use</span></samp><dd>Not yet implemented. Instructs <code>windmc</code> to generate an OLE2 header 123file, using HRESULT definitions. Status codes are used if the flag is not 124specified. 125 126 <br><dt><samp><span class="env">-O </span><var>codepage</var></samp><dt><samp><span class="env">--codepage_out </span><var>codepage</var></samp><dd>Sets the default codepage to be used to output text files. The default 127is ocdepage 1252. 128 129 <br><dt><samp><span class="env">-r </span><var>path</var></samp><dt><samp><span class="env">--rcdir </span><var>path</var></samp><dd>The target directory for the generated <code>rc</code> script and the generated 130<code>bin</code> files that the resource compiler script includes. The default 131is the current directory. 132 133 <br><dt><samp><span class="env">-u</span></samp><dt><samp><span class="env">--unicode_in</span></samp><dd>Specifies that the input file is UTF16. 134 135 <br><dt><samp><span class="env">-U</span></samp><dt><samp><span class="env">--unicode_out</span></samp><dd>Specifies that messages in the output <code>bin</code> file should be in UTF16 136format. This is the default behaviour. 137 138 <br><dt><samp><span class="env">-v</span></samp><br><dt><samp><span class="env">--verbose</span></samp><dd>Enable verbose mode. 139 140 <br><dt><samp><span class="env">-V</span></samp><br><dt><samp><span class="env">--version</span></samp><dd>Prints the version number for <samp><span class="command">windmc</span></samp>. 141 142 <br><dt><samp><span class="env">-x </span><var>path</var></samp><dt><samp><span class="env">--xdgb </span><var>path</var></samp><dd>The path of the <code>dbg</code> C include file that maps message id's to the 143symbolic name. No such file is generated without specifying the switch. 144</dl> 145 146<!-- man end --> 147 </body></html> 148 149