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 add more fun messages!

中文版

Dependences

• GNU GCC
• GNU Gettext

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 clone the project from GitHub and compile the po file in the project and copy it to the path.

  git clone https://github.com/Bill-Haku/kawaii-gcc
  cd kawaii-gcc
  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.

macOS & Windows

Not implemented yet. Contribution welcomed!

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 expected 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.