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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Bug #903129 Translations don't work on Windows
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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:43:45 +0100 (CET)
From: karl AT aspodata DOT se (Karl Hammar)
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Bob Paddock:
> Karl Hammar:
> > It should be better if the lib could have a get_localedir() routine and
> > provide it to the caller.
...
> http://developer.gnome.org/glib/2.28/glib-Windows-Compatibility-Functions.html#g-win32-get-package-installation-directory-of-module
> 
> That just moves the dependency from one library to the other,

Yes, but libgeda already depend on glib. Do you propose that we
shall minimize that dependancy ?

> did a bit of digging any came up with this:
> 
> This code will tell where the running .exe is located, it will return a
> string such
> as "C:\gEDA\geda.exe".  Find the last '\' and use everything before that as
> the path.
> May have to change '\' to '\\'  or '/' depending on the usage.
> 
> /*
>  * Simple example of how to find the location of running .exe (us).
>  *
>  * Example does not account for issues of Internalization of file
> names/file systems.
>  */
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <windows.h>
> 
> int main( void )
> {
>   char FileName_ca[MAX_PATH];
> 
>   HINSTANCE instance_h = GetModuleHandle(NULL);
> 
>   if(  GetModuleFileName(instance_h, FileName_ca, MAX_PATH) )
>     {
>       printf( "We are located at: %s\n", FileName_ca );
>     }
>   else
>    {
>      /* ASSERT or something, as this should never happen */
>    }
> }
> 

If you have tested this, I'm fine with that also.

///

I had a look at

 ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/geda-windows/snapshots/build-20121116.zip

and it's directory structure looks like:

...
 bin/gschem.exe
...
 share/locale/...
...

Can we trust that each and every geda installation in MS-Windows 
will have this directory structure?

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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