Theme Localization problem with yarn pot

sage
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You might have just needed to reload your terminal.

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Did you finely made it on windows ?
I still have an error “The syntax of the command is incorrect” even after installing coreutils, findutils and gettext

Thanks

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No, I’m using Polylang so it wasn’t necessary. But in the long run I’ll setup Hackintosh because there is just too much trouble with Roots and windows or web dev in general.

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Thanks for yout feedback.
Well, any help from the community would be appreciated to make it work on windows :slight_smile:

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I’m getting the same error message on WSL:
xargs: xgettext: No such file or directory

Now I don’t really know my way around Linux but this seems to work:

I noticed that:
/usr/local/opt/gettext/bin
Doesn’t exist on my Ubuntu 18.04 WSL Installation. In fact, there is no ‘/opt/’ directory at all.

The closest thing folder I could find is here:
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/gettext/0.19.8.1_1/bin

So I ran this command instead of the above PATH command:
echo ‘export PATH="/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/gettext/0.19.8.1_1/bin:$PATH"’ >> ~/.bash_profile
And then restarted the WSL terminal.

Now yarn pot seems to run fine, asides from a couple of ‘unterminated string’ warnings in my blade files.

It’s probably not a great solution so if anyone can figure out why I don’t have ‘/opt/gettext/bin/’ then please let me know.

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I’m running into the same issue on Windows. Yarn pot script fails with an exit code 1 (Incorrect syntax).

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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For me, this still returns

xargs: xgettext: No such file or directory
error Command failed with exit code 127.

Any help appreciated.

ps: tried

echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/gettext/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc

(using oh my zsh)

and reloading, it works.

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Hi, I’m on Windows and I do have the same problem.
Did you find a solution ?

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I use WSL 2 now, hence all *nix/Ubuntu tools can be used.

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Ok thx, I used Wp-cli

My script : “pot”: “wp i18n make-pot . resources/my-theme.pot”
Every yarn pot launch an update on my-theme.pot and generate my translation automaticly.
That my client can then used in locotranslate plugin.

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I also use VSCode with WSL 2 remote extension. The build is much faster, and the site (Docker) also runs much faster on native WSL 2 *nix file system.

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