Kawaii-gcc かわいいGCC

Make your GCC compiler kawaii~!

This project makes the output messages from GCC compiler looks kawaii by editing the localization file of GCC.

Everyone is welcomed to contribute and add more kawaii messages!

中文版（更改为中文时请优先阅读）

How to use it?

Linux (in an Ubuntu example)

Demo Video on YouTube(Japanese)

• Install Japanese for your terminal (if not installed)

  sudo apt-get install language-pack-ja language-pack-gnome-ja language-pack-ja-base language-pack-gnome-ja-base
  

• Install gcc , gettext and g++.

  sudo apt-get install gcc gettext g++
  

• Install gcc locales

  Check your gcc main version number by:

  gcc -v
  

  It is 12.3.0 on my end. So the main version number is 12.

  sudo apt-get install gcc-12-locales
  

• Find your gcc language file. Defaultly, it should be found in /usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/gcc.mo. However, it is also possible that you cannot find the file or the file is named as gcc-12.mo. If there's a related file, back up it. (eg. sudo mv gcc-12.mo gcc-12.mo.bak) Don't worry if there's no such file, you need to do nothing.

• Use the following command to download the mo file in the project and copy it to the path.

  sudo wget https://github.com/Bill-Haku/kawaii-gcc/raw/main/prebuilt/gcc.mo -O /usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/gcc-12.mo
  

  The gcc.po is the localization file for ja_JP, and the gcc-zh.po is the localization file for zh_CN. See the Chinese version README document for more details.

  You can also rebuild the binary file by yourself:

  msgfmt gcc.po -o gcc.mo
  sudo cp gcc.mo /usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/gcc-12.mo
  

  Regarding to the file name:

  • If you found an existed file in the last step, use the existed file name.
  • if not, try gcc-<MAIN VERSION NUMBER>.mo first, and if it doesn't work, rename it to gcc.mo.

• Change terminal environmental variables into Japanese:

  vim ~/.bashrc
  
  # Add the following lines
  export LANG="ja_JP.UTF-8"
  export LANGUAGE="ja_JP.UTF-8"
  # Save it in Vim
  
  source ~/.bashrc
  

• Now your GCC has become kawaii~!

  You can have a try with the test.cc provided in the project.

  gcc test.cc -Wall
  # -Wall makes GCC output all the warning messages.
  

Windows

• Install Cygwin

  • Download and run setup-x86_64.exe

  • Choose Install from Internet at the step of Select Packages.

  • At the step of Select Packages, Set View as Category and search and select the versions of gcc-core, gcc-g++ and gettext under the ALL/Devel panel.

• Suppose your Cygwin install directory is <DIR> (Defaultly it should be C:\cygwin), add the directory <DIR>\bin to the Environment Variable Path. If there's mingw in the Path, delete it or move it under the <DIR>\bin. Add another Environment Variable LANG, and set the value of it into ja_JP.UTF-8.

• Move the gcc.mo file in the ./prebuilt directory of this repository to <DIR>\usr\share\locale\ja\LC_MESSAGES, keep naming it as gcc.mo. Backuping the existed gcc.mo file is suggested.

macOS

Not implemented yet. Contribution welcomed!

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Special Thanks

This project is inspired by gcc-hentai. It was a Chinese project, and I created this repo to make a Japanese version and share it to Japanese users. I added the new text, edited and completed some details in the use instructions, and made a video in Japanese to share it. The video got unexpected attention in Chinese users on Bilibili, so I added contents of Chinese in it. Thanks for the sharing and the open-source spirit of the original authors.