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<div class="textblock"><p>In order to get the Gettext tools like <code>msgfmt</code>, <code>msgmerge</code>, <code>xgettext</code> for Windows you have basically several options:</p>
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<li>Download the package from <a href="http://cppcms.sourceforge.net">CppCMS</a> project (where the Boost.Locale was developed originally)</li>
<li>Download the a set of packages from MinGW project</li>
<li>Build it on your own</li>
<li>Use Cygwin's packages</li>
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<h1><a class="anchor" id="gettext_for_windows_cppcms"></a>
Getting gettext utilities from CppCMS project</h1>
<p>Boost.Locale was developed for needs of <a href="http://cppcms.sourceforge.net">CppCMS</a> project and thus CppCMS hosts a convince package for Windows users of pre-build, statically liked <code>gettext</code> runtime utilities like <code>xgettext</code>, <code>msgfmt</code>, etc.</p>
<p>So you can download a zip file <code>gettext-tools-static-XXX.zip</code> from a CppCMS downloads page under <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/cppcms/files/boost_locale/gettext_for_windows/">boost_locale/gettext_for_windows</a>.</p>
<p>Extract the file and use the executable files inside.</p>
<h1><a class="anchor" id="gettext_for_windows_mingw"></a>
Getting Gettext via MinGW project</h1>
<p>MinGW project provides GNU tools for Windows, including GNU compilers and various runtime utilities. Thus you can always install full MinGW distribution including gettext tools. However, if you a want minimalistic runtime version that allows you to extract messages and create catalogs you need to download several packages manually.</p>
<p>In order to install Gettext via MinGW distributing you need to download, a GCC's runtime, iconv library and gettext itself.</p>
<p>So visit a <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/">downloads page</a> of MinGW project and download following files (chose the latest versions of each package):</p>
<ul>
<li>From: <code>MinGW/BaseSystem/GCC/Version4/gcc-xxx/</code> <br/>
 File: <code>libgcc-xxx-mingw32-dll-1.tar.lzma</code> </li>
<li>From <code>MinGW/Gettext/gettext-yyy/</code> <br/>
 Files: <code>gettext-yyy-mingw32-dev.tar.lzma</code>, <code>libgettextpo-yyy-mingw32-dll-0.tar.lzma</code>, <code>libintl-yyy-mingw32-dll-8.tar.lzma</code> </li>
<li>From <code>MinGW/libiconv/libiconv-zzz/</code> <br/>
 Files: <code>libiconv-zzz-mingw32-dll-2.tar.lzma</code>, <code>libcharset-zzz-mingw32-dll-1.tar.lzma</code> </li>
</ul>
<p>For example, at June 23, 2011 it was:</p>
<ul>
<li>GNU Runtime: <code>libgcc-4.5.2-1-mingw32-dll-1.tar.lzma</code> </li>
<li><code>iconv:</code> <code>libiconv-1.13.1-1-mingw32-dll-2.tar.lzma</code> and <code>libcharset-1.13.1-1-mingw32-dll-1.tar.lzma</code> </li>
<li><code>gettext:</code> <code>libintl-0.17-1-mingw32-dll-8.tar.lzma</code>, <code>libgettextpo-0.17-1-mingw32-dll-0.tar.lzma</code> and <code>gettext-0.17-1-mingw32-dev.tar.lzma</code>.</li>
</ul>
<p>After you download the packages, extract all the files to the same directory using tools like <code>7zip</code> and you'll get all the executables and <code>dll's</code> you need under <code>bin</code> subdirectory.</p>
<dl class="section note"><dt>Note</dt><dd>the version on MinGW site is slightly outdated (0.17.1) while gettext provides currently 0.18.1.</dd></dl>
<h1><a class="anchor" id="gettext_for_windows_build"></a>
Building latest version on your own.</h1>
<p>You can build your own version of GNU Gettext using MinGW environment, you'll need to have up-to-date gcc compiler and the shell, you'll need to install iconv first and then build a gettext with it.</p>
<p>Basic and simplest way would be to open a MinGW shell</p>
<p>Build <code>iconv:</code> </p>
<div class="fragment"><div class="line">cd libiconv-SOMEVERSION</div>
<div class="line">./configure --prefix=c:/mygettext --disable-shared</div>
<div class="line">make</div>
<div class="line">make install</div>
<div class="line">cd ..</div>
<div class="line">cd <a class="code" href="group__message.html#ga1121f0001ff0f3b9455390b6412c6a2c">gettext</a>-SOMEVERSION</div>
<div class="line">./configure --prefix=c:/mygettext --disable-shared --with-libiconv-prefix=c:/mygettext</div>
<div class="line">make</div>
<div class="line">make install</div>
</div><!-- fragment --><p>And now you have in <code>c:\mygettext\bin</code> all appropriate executable files to use.</p>
<h1><a class="anchor" id="gettext_for_windows_cygwin"></a>
Using Cygwin</h1>
<p>If you already have Cygwin - just use gettext tools provided with it. </p>
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