[bug #66356] On Windows: msginit fails to run cldr-plurals if shared build

[Michele Locati]

URL:
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                 Summary: On Windows: msginit fails to run cldr-plurals if
shared build
                   Group: GNU gettext
               Submitter: mlocati
               Submitted: Sat 19 Oct 2024 07:05:43 PM CEST
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any


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Date: Sat 19 Oct 2024 07:05:43 PM CEST By: Michele Locati <mlocati>
If we set the GETTEXTCLDRDIR environment variable to the path of a directory
that contains the common/supplemental/plurals.xml file, bin/msginit executes
libexec/gettext/cldr-plurals in order to derive the plural rules from the CLDR
data.

Everything works as expected, except when gettext is built for Windows in
"shared" mode.

In that mode, we have .exe files that load functions from .dll files.
Windows locates the .dll files by looking in the directory of the .exe files
and in the directories listed in the PATH environment variable.

Thus, the executables in the bin directory work.

However, executables in other directories don't work if the bin directory
(which contains the .dll files) isn't added to the PATH environment variable.

Indeed, msginit outputs this message:

See the attached file msginit-cldr-plurals-failure.png, where you can see that
msginit executes cldr-plurals, but cldr-plurals fails to find the gettext .dll
files (libintl-8.dll and libgettextlib-0.23-pre1.dll).

I see two possible fixes:

1. when msginit launches cldr-plurals, temporarily set the current directory
to the one where msginit is located.

2. when msginit launches cldr-plurals, temporarily add the directory of
msginit to the PATH environment variable.






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