lrelease(1)lrelease(1)NAME
lrelease - generate Qt message files from Qt Linguist translation files
SYNOPSIS
lrelease [ options ] project-file
lrelease [ options ] ts-files [ -qm qm-file ]
DESCRIPTION
This page documents the Qt Linguist Release tool for the Qt GUI tool‐
kit. Lrelease reads a qmake/tmake project file (.pro file) and con‐
verts the translation files (.ts files) specified in it into Qt message
files (.qm files) used by the application to translate.
The .qm file format is a compact binary format that provides extremely
fast lookups for translations and that is used by Qt.
OPTIONS-help Display the usage and exit.
-compress
Compress the .qm files.
-nounfinished
Do not include unfinished translations.
-removeidentical
If the translated text is the same as the source text, do not
include the message.
-silent
Do not explain what is being done.
-version
Display the version of lrelease and exit.
USAGE
Here is an example .pro file that can be given to lrelease:
HEADERS = funnydialog.h \
wackywidget.h
SOURCES = funnydialog.cpp \
main.cpp \
wackywidget.cpp
FORMS = fancybox.ui
TRANSLATIONS = gnomovision_dk.ts \
gnomovision_fi.ts \
gnomovision_no.ts \
gnomovision_se.ts
When running lrelease on this project file, the Qt message files gnomo‐
vision_dk.qm, gnomovision_fi.qm, gnomovision_no.qm and gnomovi‐
sion_se.qm will be generated from gnomovision_dk.ts, gnomovision_fi.ts,
gnomovision_no.ts and gnomovision_se.ts, respectively.
Lrelease can also be invoked with a list of .ts files to convert:
lrelease gnomovision_*.ts
SEE ALSOlupdate(1) and http://doc.trolltech.com/i18n.html
Nokia Corporation and/or its sub18dOctobere2001 lrelease(1)
