Re: WG: gettext - QUESTION

[Bruno Haible]

Axel Schmidt asked:
> i am using gettext (version 0.13.1) the first time in a small project
> under MS Windows 2000. 
> 
> Since I want to create an EXE-file which do not need additional dynamic
> link libraries, i have made a static version of gettext and libiconv,
> which works fine.
> 
> There is a little thing, which bothers me: when exiting my program, my
> debugger (actually MS VC7) reports some memory leaks ... 
> 
> Sure, this isn't really a big problem, since all memory which isnt freed
> at programm end is automatically freed by the operating system.
> Unfortunately i can't find my "private" memory leaks so easy as before,
> the trace output in the IDE of the gettext unfreed memory is much, if the
> there are many translation strings.

If you were using the dynamic libintl, you could extend the DllMain function
in intl/relocatable.c to call libc_freeres_fn; thus the cleanup would be
done at program exit (I hope). But if you link statically, I don't know
into which hook to place the call to libc_freeres_fn.

Another approach is to build your application for testing purposes without
-DENABLE_NLS; then libintl will be deactivated, and you can contentrate on
your memory leaks.

Bruno