12 windmc
windmc may be used to generator Windows message resources.
Warning: windmc is not always built as part of the binary
utilities, since it is only useful for Windows targets.
windmc [options] input-file
windmc reads message definitions from an input file (.mc) and
translate them into a set of output files. The output files may be of
four kinds:
h- A C header file containing the message definitions.
rc- A resource file compilable by the windres tool.
bin- One or more binary files containing the resource data for a specific
message language.
dbg- A C include file that maps message id's to their symbolic name.
The exact description of these different formats is available in
documentation from Microsoft.
When windmc converts from the mc format to the bin
format, rc, h, and optional dbg it is acting like the
Windows Message Compiler.
- -a
- --ascii_in
- Specifies that the input file specified is ANSI. This is the default
behaviour.
- -A
- --ascii_out
- Specifies that messages in the output
bin files should be in ANSI
format.
- -b
- --binprefix
- Specifies that
bin filenames should have to be prefixed by the
basename of the source file.
- -c
- --customflag
- Sets the customer bit in all message id's.
- -C codepage
- --codepage_in codepage
- Sets the default codepage to be used to convert input file to UTF16. The
default is ocdepage 1252.
- -d
- --decimal_values
- Outputs the constants in the header file in decimal. Default is using
hexadecimal output.
- -e ext
- --extension ext
- The extension for the header file. The default is .h extension.
- -F target
- --target target
- Specify the BFD format to use for a bin file as output. This
is a BFD target name; you can use the --help option to see a list
of supported targets. Normally windmc will use the default
format, which is the first one listed by the --help option.
Target Selection.
- -h path
- --headerdir path
- The target directory of the generated header file. The default is the
current directory.
- -H
- --help
- Displays a list of command line options and then exits.
- -m characters
- --maxlength characters
- Instructs windmc to generate a warning if the length
of any message exceeds the number specified.
- -n
- --nullterminate
- Terminate message text in
bin files by zero. By default they are
terminated by CR/LF.
- -o
- --hresult_use
- Not yet implemented. Instructs
windmc to generate an OLE2 header
file, using HRESULT definitions. Status codes are used if the flag is not
specified.
- -O codepage
- --codepage_out codepage
- Sets the default codepage to be used to output text files. The default
is ocdepage 1252.
- -r path
- --rcdir path
- The target directory for the generated
rc script and the generated
bin files that the resource compiler script includes. The default
is the current directory.
- -u
- --unicode_in
- Specifies that the input file is UTF16.
- -U
- --unicode_out
- Specifies that messages in the output
bin file should be in UTF16
format. This is the default behaviour.
- -v
- --verbose
- Enable verbose mode.
- -V
- --version
- Prints the version number for windmc.
- -x path
- --xdgb path
- The path of the
dbg C include file that maps message id's to the
symbolic name. No such file is generated without specifying the switch.