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+This is a guide to compile strgen on gcc
+
+All this is done in the makefile, so it's only interesting for people, who wants to alter something themselves (translators)
+
+HOWTO compile lng files:
+
+First you get strgen compiled (look below/download nightly build/run makefile)
+
+strgen takes the argument of a txt file and translates it to a lng file and places that lng file in the same dir as the txt file.
+
+Example 1:
+if you are in the root of your working copy (svn code), you should type
+strgen/strgen lang/english.txt
+to compile englist.lng. It will be placed in the lang dir
+
+Example 2:
+you have strgen but not the source and you want to compile a txt file in the same dir. YOu should type
+./strgen english.txt
+and you will get english.lng in the same dir
+
+You can change english to whatever language you want
+
+Commands used by strgen
+
+-v --version
+strgen will tell what svn revision it is based on
+
+-t
+strgen will add <TODO> to the missing strings and use the english strings while compiling
+this will need english.txt to be present
+
+-w
+strgen will print any missing strings to standard error output(stderr)
+this will need english.txt to be present
+
+here are a very useful tool for translators:
+http://openttd.rulez.org/
+
+
+HOWTO compile strgen:
+(this should be useless as you can just type make)
+Goto the main dir
+Compile by typing
+gcc strgen/strgen.c -o strgen/strgen -DUNIX
+or if you want it to tell the revision too
+gcc strgen/strgen.c rev.o -o strgen/strgen -DUNIX -DWITH_REV (this is the one the makefile uses)
+
+you now have a program called strgen in the strgen directory
+