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6 windmc - generates Windows message resources.
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9 windmc [options] input-file
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12 windmc reads message definitions from an input file (.mc) and translate
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16 "h" A C header file containing the message definitions.
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19 A resource file compilable by the windres tool.
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22 One or more binary files containing the resource data for a
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26 A C include file that maps message id's to their symbolic name.
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28 The exact description of these different formats is available in
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31 When windmc converts from the "mc" format to the "bin" format, "rc",
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36 --ascii_in
37 Specifies that the input file specified is ASCII. This is the
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41 --ascii_out
42 Specifies that messages in the output "bin" files should be in
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46 --binprefix
47 Specifies that "bin" filenames should have to be prefixed by the
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52 Sets the customer bit in all message id's.
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55 --codepage_in codepage
56 Sets the default codepage to be used to convert input file to
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60 --decimal_values
61 Outputs the constants in the header file in decimal. Default is
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65 --extension ext
66 The extension for the header file. The default is .h extension.
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68 -F target
69 --target target
70 Specify the BFD format to use for a bin file as output. This is a
71 BFD target name; you can use the --help option to see a list of
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75 -h path
76 --headerdir path
77 The target directory of the generated header file. The default is
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81 --help
82 Displays a list of command line options and then exits.
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85 --maxlength characters
86 Instructs windmc to generate a warning if the length of any message
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90 --nullterminate
91 Terminate message text in "bin" files by zero. By default they are
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95 --hresult_use
96 Not yet implemented. Instructs "windmc" to generate an OLE2 header
97 file, using HRESULT definitions. Status codes are used if the flag
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101 --codepage_out codepage
102 Sets the default codepage to be used to output text files. The
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105 -r path
106 --rcdir path
107 The target directory for the generated "rc" script and the
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112 --unicode_in
113 Specifies that the input file is UTF16.
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116 --unicode_out
117 Specifies that messages in the output "bin" file should be in UTF16
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120 -v
121 --verbose
122 Enable verbose mode.
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124 -V
125 --version
126 Prints the version number for windmc.
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128 -x path
129 --xdgb path
130 The path of the "dbg" C include file that maps message id's to the
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134 @file
135 Read command-line options from file. The options read are inserted
136 in place of the original @file option. If file does not exist, or
137 cannot be read, then the option will be treated literally, and not
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140 Options in file are separated by whitespace. A whitespace
141 character may be included in an option by surrounding the entire
142 option in either single or double quotes. Any character (including
143 a backslash) may be included by prefixing the character to be
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145 @file options; any such options will be processed recursively.
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