Do I need to grab something special to run compile_mo.sh? WinXP doesn’t know what created it and it doesn’t look like I could just whack it with Code:Blocks.
Thanks for your time; some things aren’t obvious. 
You need GNU Bash.
This is trivial if you had a GNU/Linux operating system. On Windows, look for something called “MinGW” (Minimalist GNU for Windows). That’s all the help I give in this thread. Reason: Lazyness: 