Babilim is a prototype for localization plugins for the OCaml compiler.

This plugin currently requires a patch to the OCaml compiler to work. This patch is available at https://github.com/Octachron/ocaml/tree/i18n .

Once this patched compiler installed, babilim can be installed with opam pin add babilim https://github.com/Octachron/babilim.git.

The localization plugin can then be used with either ocamlopt

ocamlopt -plugin $(ocamlfind query babilim)/babilim.cmxs -x-lang ${available translation}

or ocamlc

ocamlc -plugin $(ocamlfind query babilim)/babilim.cma -x-lang fr ${available translation}

Available translations:

More translations are more than welcome, see the template file

Code structure of babilim

the xtract executable implements localized string extraction using the compiler-libs
the po library implements the parsing of po files
the metaprintf library provides a position-aware alternative to format string whic used the underlying Format formatting engine, dynamic parsers for both Format format string and the metaprintf variant, and some adaptator between the two format
the translator executable translates the po files into the internal binary format used by the babilim plugin