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<h2 class="chapter">12 windmc</h2>
<p><samp><span class="command">windmc</span></samp> may be used to generator Windows message resources.
<blockquote>
<em>Warning:</em> <samp><span class="command">windmc</span></samp> is not always built as part of the binary
utilities, since it is only useful for Windows targets.
</blockquote>
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<pre class="smallexample"> <!-- man begin SYNOPSIS windmc -->
windmc [options] input-file
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<p><samp><span class="command">windmc</span></samp> 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:
<dl>
<dt><code>h</code><dd>A C header file containing the message definitions.
<br><dt><code>rc</code><dd>A resource file compilable by the <samp><span class="command">windres</span></samp> tool.
<br><dt><code>bin</code><dd>One or more binary files containing the resource data for a specific
message language.
<br><dt><code>dbg</code><dd>A C include file that maps message id's to their symbolic name.
</dl>
<p>The exact description of these different formats is available in
documentation from Microsoft.
<p>When <samp><span class="command">windmc</span></samp> converts from the <code>mc</code> format to the <code>bin</code>
format, <code>rc</code>, <code>h</code>, and optional <code>dbg</code> it is acting like the
Windows Message Compiler.
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<dl>
<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
behaviour.
<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
format.
<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
basename of the source file.
<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.
<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
default is ocdepage 1252.
<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
hexadecimal output.
<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.
<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
is a BFD target name; you can use the <samp><span class="option">--help</span></samp> option to see a list
of supported targets. Normally <samp><span class="command">windmc</span></samp> will use the default
format, which is the first one listed by the <samp><span class="option">--help</span></samp> option.
<a href="Target-Selection.html#Target-Selection">Target Selection</a>.
<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
current directory.
<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.
<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
of any message exceeds the number specified.
<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
terminated by CR/LF.
<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
file, using HRESULT definitions. Status codes are used if the flag is not
specified.
<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
is ocdepage 1252.
<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
<code>bin</code> files that the resource compiler script includes. The default
is the current directory.
<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.
<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
format. This is the default behaviour.
<br><dt><samp><span class="env">-v</span></samp><br><dt><samp><span class="env">--verbose</span></samp><dd>Enable verbose mode.
<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>.
<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
symbolic name. No such file is generated without specifying the switch.
</dl>
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