Windows API Translation

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 09:10:02 +0200, Andrew Wiley <debio264 at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> I'm trying to use the Windows file change notification API from D, and
> I'm having trouble translating Microsoft's macro-laden signatures into
> D. I thought I had it figured out, but optlink says otherwise:
> The original function is this:
>
> HANDLE WINAPI FindFirstChangeNotification(
>   __in  LPCTSTR lpPathName,
>   __in  BOOL bWatchSubtree,
>   __in  DWORD dwNotifyFilter
> );
>
> I translated it into:
>
> extern(Windows) {
> uint FindFirstChangeNotification(
> 	const(char)* lpPathName,
> 	bool bWatchSubtree,
> 	uint dwNotifyFilter
> );
> }
>
> Optlink is giving me undefined symbol errors, but I can't seem to
> figure out what I have wrong. Any help would be appreciated.

Are you linking with the appropriate import library?

You may also want to have a look at the Win32 bindings project (which also  
has this function among many others):
http://dsource.org/projects/bindings/wiki/WindowsApi

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Best regards,
  Vladimir                            mailto:vladimir at thecybershadow.net