C++ gettext doesn't translate (Windows 8.1)

I tried almost all solutions I found on web/stackoverflow.

The problem is, that gettext doesn't translate my text in C++(11).

Here is my shortened code:

#include "gettext.h"

std::string locale(setlocale(LC_ALL, ""));
MessageBoxA(NULL, locale.c_str(), "Locale", MB_OK); // prints out 'German_Germany.1252'
std::string lclocale = "LC_ALL=" + locale";

if(0 == putenv(lclocale.c_str()))
    MessageboxA(NULL, "Set locale seccussful", "Locale", MB_OK);
else
    MessageboxA(NULL, "Set locale error", "Locale", MB_OK);

std::string domain("xyz_locale");
textdomain(domain.c_str());
bindtextdomain(domain.c_str(), "./xyz_locale");
bind_textdomain_codeset(domain.c_str(), "UTF-8"); // same problem without this line

What I already tried:

• Set locale (LC_ALL) manually to
  
  
  
  • de
  
  
  • german
  
  
  • de_DE
  
  
  • German_Germany.1252
  
  
  
  

Here is my directory structure for locale:

pathToDomain
    /(locale) //tried all names mentioned above
        /LC_MESSAGES
            /(domain).mo

I already tried to set path absolute ("C:/....../(domain)")

Translation(-files) are made with PoEdit. *.po files are encodet with UTF-8, line endings are set to windows (setting in PoEdit).

I've downloaded gettext stuff from here:

• ftp.gnome.org


• mlocati.github.io

but there is no difference in result with them.

I copied gettext.h from gettext-tools-dev_0.18.1.1-2.win32/share/gettext to /include directory of my project.

Edit:

I already read through gettext windows FAQ