Message files: what changed
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Title: Message files
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| 3 | + | ## Basics | |
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| 5 | + | The compiler uses the files in fpc/compiler/msg to output translated error message. The default one, errore.msg, is compiled into the compiler, so it will work without any message file available. | |
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| 7 | + | To add a new message, find the appropriate section (parser_, scan_ etc.) in errore.msg and add the new message at the end of this section with a new succeeding message id. Then rebuild the built-in message tables with | |
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| 9 | + | `cd fpc/compiler; make msg` | |
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| 11 | + | and commit the resulting msg*.inc files as well as the changed errore.msg file. The translators are responsible to add the new messages to the translated files. | |
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| 13 | + | ## Translating | |
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| 15 | + | In order to get a starting point for updating the message files of other languages, one can use the program msgdif from fpc/compiler/utils. It compares two message files and outputs problems as well as a file new.msg, which you can take as a starting point for an update. | |
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| 17 | + | Example: | |
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| 19 | + | `msgdif errore.msg errorr.msg` | |
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| 22 | + | *From the Free Pascal wiki, page "Message files", as it stood on 2020-12-28 after a change by E-ric, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's [[Licensing]] page. If you have concerns about this material, [message the admin](/wiki-contact).* | |
| 23 | + | Category: FPC internals |