Hi,

I'm in a bit of a pickle. Long story short was assigned a last-minute senior project to do before I graduate (from HS), and I decided to translate an open source game since I'm mildly interested in software and game localization. However, this turned out to be a very bad idea as I know next to nothing about programming, and have had trouble compiling the game source. I asked all my programmer friends to help, but they couldn't figure it out. I also can't seem to find any tutorials for completely clueless people like me on how to compile and run open source games.

Can anyone please post a very layman-friendly guide for me on how to compile this game in Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 or Devcpp? The game in question is Project: Starfighter (http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/starfighter.php). There's the source code and a makefile included in the download on the site.

Any help ASAP is very, very much appretiated. Thank you so much.

-alpine

Hi

First of all I guess I should give you the link to gettext documentation:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/...ettext_11.html

gettext is the standard method that open source programmers use to translate their programs
However, the program you chose wasn't designed to work with gettext. It doesn't have a method for localization at all.

If you were to pick another open source project that implements gettext then you can read sections 7, 8 and 9 of the previous link. You can also download one of the translation software meant for gettext in order to create a new translation file.

In order to prepare starfighter for gettext or something similar you would need a good deal of knowledge of programming. You would have to go through the code, find the text that will be printed, and replace them with the correct code.

I hope you aren't more confused about the explanation. Good Luck

Thanks for your help. I thought about translating a gettext project's .po files, but most of them had already been done. I'll see if I can find anything else, but I think I'm just stuck with a bunch of cpp files ;)

Thanks again.