International APPs / pygettext

[Ingo Linkweiler]

> the `xpot' utility (...) might not be usable.

do you know other utilities for extracting the strings from my source?
Where can I get xpot, or any similar software?

I have never used the gettext-utilitues before. Is this the correct way?

Source -> Utility1 -> .po-file -> Editor1 + msgfmt -> .mo-file

Utility1 = xpot or ???
Editor1 = vi or any text-editor
msgfmt = included in gettext-distribution... But:

Where can I get a (compiled) windows version of msgfmt? I can not find 
it at gnu.org and not in the cygwin utilities.

Or are there any other modules available for development of 
multi-language software?