Hi Guys,

I found the following whilst 'toying' with the compiler code (Linux 2.2.4), in
particular the code dealing with the compiler messages;

I have used msg2inc to generate the new msgtxt.inc and msgidx.inc from my modified errore.msg file.

Within unit verbose.pas, procedure InitVerbose() and procedure LoadMsgFile() include the code: msg^.LoadIntern(@msgtxt,msgtxtsize); According to the compiler, msgtxt is undefined. Where should it be defined? Where does it read the contents of the message constants?

TMessage (TP7 object) is defined within cmsgs.pas, and includes a field msgtxt (PChar) but it' doesn't seem to be part of the msg refered to within the aforementioned procedures.

If I generate the compiler such that it reads the physical errore.msg file at runtime, my modifications work, but I would prefer to have the messages included within the compiler .

Can someone kindly point me in the right direction with regards to the above.

Thanks.
Regards,
Nino

The answer to both questions is msgtxt.inc, which is included in verbose.pas

Jonas

Hi Jonas,

Thanks for the reply.

I see where I went wrong.

I executed ./msg2inc -S errore.msg msgtxt msgidx instead of ./msg2inc -S errore.msg msg msg

I must say though, the usage of msg2inc is a little misleading.

Regards,
Nino

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I must say though, the usage of msg2inc is a little misleading.

It's just a helper tool that's automatically invoked by the Makefile under normal circumstances, so I don't think anyone ever really paid attention to how user-friendly it is.

Jonas