cmake: add CUTTER_ENABLE_TRANSLATIONS option to skip translation build

[blshkv]

Summary

Adds a CMake option CUTTER_ENABLE_TRANSLATIONS (default ON) to cmake/Translations.cmake that allows skipping the translation file build and install step.

Motivation

When building from a GitHub commit/tag archive rather than a full git clone, the .ts source files are not present (they live in the repository but are not included in the archive tarballs). Without this option, CMake fails at install time with:

file INSTALL cannot find ".../translations/cutter_ar_SA.qm": No such file or directory

Passing -DCUTTER_ENABLE_TRANSLATIONS=OFF avoids the issue cleanly without requiring any other changes.

Test plan

• Build with -DCUTTER_ENABLE_TRANSLATIONS=ON (default) — translations build as before
• Build with -DCUTTER_ENABLE_TRANSLATIONS=OFF — translation step is skipped, install succeeds

[blshkv]

To add some context: this is admittedly a workaround, but I don't see a cleaner alternative for distributors building from archive tarballs.

The issue is that GitHub's archive downloads (both commit snapshots and release tarballs) do not include the src/translations/*.ts files — those only exist in a full git clone. For other bundled dependencies like rizin there is a proper escape hatch (CUTTER_USE_BUNDLED_RIZIN=OFF) that lets the build use a system-installed package instead. Translations have no equivalent: there is no "system translations package" to fall back to, and the .ts files must be physically present under src/translations/ for lrelease to compile them into .qm files.

The alternative would be to fetch the translation files separately (e.g. as an additional download), but that adds complexity for little gain if the goal is simply to build the application without translations. This option keeps that path straightforward.

[PremadeS]

Shouldn't this option be in the main CMakeLists.txt where all of the other options are?
And then Translations.cmake in src/CMakeLists.txt can be included only if that option is checked?

[blshkv]

Shouldn't this option be in the main CMakeLists.txt where all of the other options are? And then Translations.cmake in src/CMakeLists.txt can be included only if that option is checked?

good point. I trusted AI too much. It is fixed in the last commit

[PremadeS]

good point. I trusted AI too much. It is fixed in the last commit

Could you please merge/rebase?

[blshkv]

Could you please merge/rebase?

done

[thestr4ng3r]

@blshkv As a sidenote, if you build a release of cutter, you should use the tarballs provided by us, e.g. https://github.com/rizinorg/cutter/releases/download/v2.5.0/Cutter-v2.5.0-src.tar.gz
These will include all translation files and also rizin source, in case that is needed.