CMake turned every res/lang/*.json into an xxd header that i18n.cpp
compiled in as a fallback, on every platform. Only the Windows
single-file exe needs it: the Linux zip and AppImage and the macOS .app
always ship res/lang, and loadLanguage() reads the loose file first. On
Linux the embedded copy added about 1.5 MB to the binary, and every
translation edit recompiled i18n.cpp.
A new option, DRAGONX_EMBED_LANG, defaults to ON for WIN32 and OFF
elsewhere:
- ON without xxd is now a configure error (it used to warn, then fail to
compile i18n.cpp on the missing headers);
- i18n.cpp compiles the embedded includes and the fallback only when ON;
- outside Windows, loadLanguage() also tries
<exe>/../share/<app>/res/lang (the cmake --install layout and the
full-node AppImage) and <exe>/../Resources/res/lang (the macOS .app
binary run directly), so those layouts find the loose files whatever
the working directory; before, only the embedded copy covered that.
Measured:
- full-node Linux binary: .data 1,699,696 -> 168,592 bytes; stripped
19,983,136 -> 18,456,128 bytes (-1.53 MB);
- with the ImGui demo stubs, the Linux zips and AppImages are
0.50-0.55 MB smaller, with identical file lists including all 8
language files;
- a Lite build started from an unrelated working directory loads the
ja.json next to the binary (2422 strings), and the packaged Lite zip
and AppImage load ja.json with no new not-found or failed lines;
- Windows keeps the embedded copy: the 8 language headers are generated
and the ja.json bytes are in the exe.
A new test loads "de" from the loose files and checks a translated
string; with bin/res/lang moved away exactly its two assertions fail.
Behaviour changes on Linux and macOS: a missing or corrupt res/lang now
falls back to English instead of the embedded copy, and a translation
edit needs only the copy_langs step instead of a recompile.
Not verifiable here: the macOS .app in a non-English language, and the
Windows single-file exe at runtime.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
DanSandClaude Opus 5.5
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