Cannot find symbol using wine

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Sunday 24 October 2010 20:33:40 Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Sunday 24 October 2010 18:20:53 Denis Koroskin wrote:
> > On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 05:03:50 +0400, Jonathan M Davis
> > <jmdavisProg at gmx.com>
> > 
> > wrote:
> > > I'm trying to read from the registry (thus far unsuccesfully).
> > > core.sys.windows.windows has RegOpenKeyExA() in it, and I'm trying to
> > > use it to
> > > read a registry key. However, when I use it, I get this error upon
> > > compilation:
> > > 
> > > Error 42: Symbol Undefined _RegOpenKeyExA at 20
> > > 
> > > I'm using wine, and according to
> > > http://source.winehq.org/WineAPI/RegOpenKeyExA.html it appears to be
> > > implemented. So, what on earth could I be missing? Any help would be
> > > much appreciated.
> > 
> > This function isn't implemented in Phobos, it's implemented in
> > advapi32.dll You either need to link with advapi32.lib or a linkage.def
> > file with the following contents (without quotes):
> > 
> > "EXETYPE NT
> > 
> > IMPORTS
> > _RegOpenKeyExA at 20 = advapi32.RegOpenKeyExA"
> > 
> > Hope that helps.
> 
> I haven't had this problem with any other windows calls that I've used. As
> long as they've been in druntime, they've worked. Are you suggesting that
> that's the case because Phobos or druntime also happened to link aganst
> any of the other windows functions that I've used, and that in this case,
> they don't, so I have to link it explicitly?

It looks liking adding advapi32.lib to the compilation command does the trick, 
but I don't know why I've never needed to do that before with other Windows 
functions.

- Jonathan M Davis