From f61388d7fc4ff41d51ee448e15660daba0d6cc2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Joshua=20Vanda=C3=ABle?= <joshua@vandaele.software>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2025 03:11:51 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] CMake: Unify translation directories

---
 Source/Core/DolphinQt/CMakeLists.txt  | 29 ++++++++-------------------
 Source/Core/DolphinQt/Translation.cpp | 19 +++++++++---------
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Source/Core/DolphinQt/CMakeLists.txt b/Source/Core/DolphinQt/CMakeLists.txt
index e7e70c508b..87d9ee976d 100644
--- a/Source/Core/DolphinQt/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Source/Core/DolphinQt/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -578,13 +578,9 @@ if(GETTEXT_MSGFMT_EXECUTABLE)
 
   foreach(po ${LINGUAS})
     get_filename_component(lang ${po} NAME_WE)
-    if(WIN32)
-      set(mo_dir ${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/Languages)
-      set(mo ${mo_dir}/${lang}.mo)
-    else()
-      set(mo_dir ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${lang})
-      set(mo ${mo_dir}/dolphin-emu.mo)
-    endif()
+
+    set(mo_dir ${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/Languages/${lang})
+    set(mo ${mo_dir}/dolphin-emu.mo)
 
     target_sources(dolphin-emu PRIVATE ${mo})
     source_group("Localization\\\\Generated" FILES ${mo})
@@ -595,20 +591,11 @@ if(GETTEXT_MSGFMT_EXECUTABLE)
       install(FILES ${mo} DESTINATION share/locale/${lang}/LC_MESSAGES)
     endif()
 
-    if(WIN32)
-      add_custom_command(OUTPUT ${mo}
-        COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E make_directory ${mo_dir}
-        COMMAND ${GETTEXT_MSGFMT_EXECUTABLE} -o ${mo} ${po}
-        DEPENDS ${po}
-      )
-    else()
-      add_custom_command(OUTPUT ${mo}
-        COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E make_directory ${mo_dir}
-        COMMAND ${GETTEXT_MSGMERGE_EXECUTABLE} --quiet --update --backup=none ${po} ${pot_file}
-        COMMAND ${GETTEXT_MSGFMT_EXECUTABLE} -o ${mo} ${po}
-        DEPENDS ${po}
-      )
-    endif()
+    add_custom_command(OUTPUT ${mo}
+      COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E make_directory ${mo_dir}
+      COMMAND ${GETTEXT_MSGFMT_EXECUTABLE} -o ${mo} ${po}
+      DEPENDS ${po}
+    )
   endforeach()
 endif()
 
diff --git a/Source/Core/DolphinQt/Translation.cpp b/Source/Core/DolphinQt/Translation.cpp
index 1b93536ac9..8e4339cb2b 100644
--- a/Source/Core/DolphinQt/Translation.cpp
+++ b/Source/Core/DolphinQt/Translation.cpp
@@ -274,18 +274,17 @@ static bool TryInstallTranslator(const QString& exact_language_code)
   for (const auto& qlang : FindPossibleLanguageCodes(exact_language_code))
   {
     std::string lang = qlang.toStdString();
-    auto filename =
-#if defined _WIN32
-        fmt::format("{}/Languages/{}.mo", File::GetExeDirectory(), lang)
-#elif defined __APPLE__
-        fmt::format("{}/Contents/Resources/{}.lproj/dolphin-emu.mo", File::GetBundleDirectory(),
-                    lang)
-#elif defined LINUX_LOCAL_DEV
-        fmt::format("{}/../Source/Core/DolphinQt/{}/dolphin-emu.mo", File::GetExeDirectory(), lang)
+    std::string filename;
+#if defined __APPLE__
+    filename = fmt::format("{}/Contents/Resources/{}.lproj/dolphin-emu.mo",
+                           File::GetBundleDirectory(), lang);
 #else
-        fmt::format("{}/../locale/{}/LC_MESSAGES/dolphin-emu.mo", DATA_DIR, lang)
+    filename = fmt::format("{}/Languages/{}/dolphin-emu.mo", File::GetExeDirectory(), lang);
+#ifndef _WIN32
+    if (!File::Exists(filename))
+      filename = fmt::format("{}/../locale/{}/LC_MESSAGES/dolphin-emu.mo", DATA_DIR, lang);
+#endif
 #endif
-        ;
 
     auto* translator = new MoTranslator(QApplication::instance());
     if (translator->load(filename))