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https://github.com/vslavik/poedit

Translations editor for Mac, Windows and Unix
https://github.com/vslavik/poedit

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# Poedit: cross-platform translation editor



[![Crowdin](https://badges.crowdin.net/poedit/localized.svg)](https://crowdin.com/project/poedit)



## About



This program is a simple translation editor for PO and XLIFF files. It also

serves as a GUI frontend to more GNU gettext utilities (win32 version

is part of the distribution) and catalogs editor/source code parser. It helps

with translating applications into another language. For details on principles

of the solution used, see GNU gettext documentation.



## Installation



Easily-installable prebuilt binaries for Windows and macOS are available from

https://poedit.net/download



Official binaries for Linux are available as a Snap at https://snapcraft.io/poedit.

Most Linux distributions also include native Poedit packages.



### Installing from sources



Requirements:



  * Boost

  * Unicode build of [wxWidgets](http://www.wxwidgets.org) library, version >= 3.2

  * ICU

  * LucenePlusPlus

  * If on Unix, GtkSpell for spell checking support



Optional dependencies:



  * cld2 (better language autodetection and non-English source languages)

  * C++REST SDK >= 2.5 (Crowdin integration)



### Unix



Do the usual thing:



    ./configure

    make

    make install



You must have the dependencies installed in a location where configure will find

them, e.g. by setting `CPPFLAGS` and `LDFLAGS` appropriately.



### macOS



You need a full git checkout to build on macOS; see below for details.



After checkout, use the `Poedit.xcworkspace` workspace and the latest version of

Xcode to build Poedit.



There are some additional dependencies on tools not included with macOS.

They can be installed with Homebrew and `macos/Brewfile`:



    brew bundle --file=macos/Brewfile



### Windows using Visual Studio



You need a full git checkout to build on Windows; see below for details. Note that the repository uses

symlinks and so you'll need to enabled [Developer Mode](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/get-started/enable-your-device-for-development) and configure git to allow symlinks:



    git config --global core.symlinks true



After checkout, use the `Poedit.sln` solution to build everything. To build the installer, open `win32/poedit.iss` in Inno Setup and compile the project.



 ### Installing from Git repository



Get the sources from GitHub (https://github.com/vslavik/poedit):



    git clone https://github.com/vslavik/poedit.git



If you are on Windows or OSX, you'll need all the dependencies too. After

cloning the repository, run the following command:



    git submodule update --init --recursive



On Linux and other Unices, only a subset of submodules is necessary, so you can

save some time and disk space by checking out only them:



    git submodule update --init deps/json deps/pugixml



When building for Unix/Linux, if you get the sources directly from the Git

repository, some generated files are not present. You have to run the

`./bootstrap` script to create them. After that, continue according to the

instructions above.



The `./bootstrap` script requires some additional tools to be installed:



 * AsciiDoc, xsltproc and xmlto to generate the manual page

 * gettext tools to create `.mo` files



On macOS and Windows, bootstrapping is not needed.



## License



Poedit is released under [the MIT license](COPYING) and you're free to do

whatever you want with it and its source code (well, almost :-) -- see the

license text).



See the `COPYING` file for details on the program's licensing and the `icons/README` file for details on the icons.



Windows and macOS versions contain GNU gettext binaries. They are distributed

under the GNU General Public License and their source code is available from

http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext. If you have difficulties getting them

from there, email me for a copy of the sources.



## Links



1. [Poedit's website](https://poedit.net/)

2. [GNU gettext](http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/)