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Title "WINDMC 1" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
way too many mistakes in technical documents.
.nh windmc - generates Windows message resources Header "SYNOPSIS" windmc [options] input-file Header "DESCRIPTION" \fBwindmc 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: Item "h" A C header file containing the message definitions. Item "rc" A resource file compilable by the windres tool. Item "bin" One or more binary files containing the resource data for a specific message language. Item "dbg" A C include file that maps message id\*(Aqs to their symbolic name.

The exact description of these different formats is available in documentation from Microsoft.

When windmc converts from the \*(C`mc\*(C' format to the \*(C`bin\*(C' format, \*(C`rc\*(C', \*(C`h\*(C', and optional \*(C`dbg\*(C' it is acting like the Windows Message Compiler.

Header "OPTIONS" Item "-a"

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Item "--ascii_in"

Specifies that the input file specified is ASCII. This is the default behaviour.

Item "-A"

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Item "--ascii_out"

Specifies that messages in the output \*(C`bin\*(C' files should be in ASCII format.

Item "-b"

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Item "--binprefix"

Specifies that \*(C`bin\*(C' filenames should have to be prefixed by the basename of the source file.

Item "-c"

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Item "--customflag"

Sets the customer bit in all message id\*(Aqs.

Item "-C codepage"

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Item "--codepage_in codepage"

Sets the default codepage to be used to convert input file to UTF16. The default is ocdepage 1252.

Item "-d"

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Item "--decimal_values"

Outputs the constants in the header file in decimal. Default is using hexadecimal output.

Item "-e ext"

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Item "--extension ext"

The extension for the header file. The default is .h extension.

Item "-F target"

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Item "--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.

Item "-h path"

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Item "--headerdir path"

The target directory of the generated header file. The default is the current directory.

Item "-H"

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Item "--help"

Displays a list of command-line options and then exits.

Item "-m characters"

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Item "--maxlength characters"

Instructs windmc to generate a warning if the length of any message exceeds the number specified.

Item "-n"

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Item "--nullterminate"

Terminate message text in \*(C`bin\*(C' files by zero. By default they are terminated by CR/LF.

Item "-o"

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Item "--hresult_use"

Not yet implemented. Instructs \*(C`windmc\*(C' to generate an OLE2 header file, using HRESULT definitions. Status codes are used if the flag is not specified.

Item "-O codepage"

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Item "--codepage_out codepage"

Sets the default codepage to be used to output text files. The default is ocdepage 1252.

Item "-r path"

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Item "--rcdir path"

The target directory for the generated \*(C`rc\*(C' script and the generated \f(CW\*(C`bin\*(C' files that the resource compiler script includes. The default is the current directory.

Item "-u"

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Item "--unicode_in"

Specifies that the input file is UTF16.

Item "-U"

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Item "--unicode_out"

Specifies that messages in the output \*(C`bin\*(C' file should be in UTF16 format. This is the default behaviour.

Item "-v"

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Item "--verbose"

Enable verbose mode.

Item "-V"

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Item "--version"

Prints the version number for windmc.

Item "-x path"

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Item "--xdgb path"

The path of the \*(C`dbg\*(C' C include file that maps message id\*(Aqs to the symbolic name. No such file is generated without specifying the switch.

Item "@file" Read command-line options from file. The options read are inserted in place of the original @file option. If file does not exist, or cannot be read, then the option will be treated literally, and not removed. .Sp Options in file are separated by whitespace. A whitespace character may be included in an option by surrounding the entire option in either single or double quotes. Any character (including a backslash) may be included by prefixing the character to be included with a backslash. The file may itself contain additional @file options; any such options will be processed recursively. Header "SEE ALSO" the Info entries for binutils. Header "COPYRIGHT" Copyright (c) 1991-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

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