Still not able to get gettext working - SOLVED

[David Bruce]

Hi Bruno and everyone,

I finally determined that the problem was that my program did 
not '#include "config.h"' until after '#include "gettext.h"'.  It appears 
that "config.h" must be included before "gettext.h" for the program to work 
correctly. By moving '#include "config.h"' to the top of my "global" header 
file, the problem was eliminated.  It seems that the #define's in "config.h" 
are needed for "gettext.h" to work properly (does that seem plausible?)

I couldn't find mention of this problem in either the gettext manual or the 
gettext FAQ, nor via Google - if this ordering requirement is generally true 
and not just some quirk of my program or machine, I think it should be in the 
documentation.


Below is a stripped-down example:


/***************************************************************/
/* THIS DOES NOT WORK - "config.h" MUST be before "gettext.h", */
/* then it will work properly:                                 */
/***************************************************************/

#include "gettext.h"
#include "config.h"


#include <locale.h>
#define _(String) gettext (String)
#define gettext_noop(String) String
#define N_(String) gettext_noop (String)

int main(int argc, char * argv[])
{
  setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
  bindtextdomain(PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
  bind_textdomain_codeset(PACKAGE, "UTF-8");
  textdomain(PACKAGE);

/* --- rest of actual program  --- */
  return 0;
}

Cheers,

-- 
David Bruce