how to get the local?

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:13:44 -0400, Lloyd Dupont <ld-REMOVE at galador.net>  
wrote:

> Thanks for the link hey! :)
> Otherwise I still get the same linking error with the W :(

It looks like that particular function does not have the A and W versions.

See this page:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd318136%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

And see this for an example of something that comes in W and A variety:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd317759%28v=VS.85%29.aspx

Note at the bottom the "Unicode and ANSI names" part.

Here is my new theory -- note that the function is only defined on Vista  
or later.  DMD does not use the same object format as Windows (i.e. Visual  
C++), so all libraries have to be "converted" to a form that dmd can link  
with.  Most of the relevant Windows lib files are already pre-converted  
and included in the dmd distribution under windows/lib.  I'd bet that the  
version of kernel32.lib that was used to generate this file is an XP  
version, which would not contain this function.

I'd recommend investigating how to replace that kernel32.lib with the  
Vista (or later) version (I'm sure someone will tell you here ;) or try  
using the predecessor function, which should be universally compatible  
(See the above noted documentation).

-Steve

>
>
> "Andrej Mitrovic"  wrote in message  
> news:mailman.518.1306939098.14074.digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com...
>
>> From what I can tell you're using the wide version, so try prototyping
> it as GetUserDefaultLocaleNameW <- note the W
>
> Otherwise you should really get
> http://dsource.org/projects/bindings/wiki/WindowsApi , which has
> prototypes for many windows functions. You just have to build and use
> it with --version=Unicode if you want GetUserDefaultLocaleName to
> alias itself to GetUserDefaultLocaleNameW.