Cannot find symbol using wine

[Denis Koroskin]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:33:40 +0400, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com>  
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.
>> >
>> > - Jonathan M Davis
>>
>> 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?
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Yes, it links with some of the libraries implicitly.