Re: How do I convert a LPVOID (void*) to string?

[Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 16 October 2017 at 21:48:35 UTC, Nieto wrote:
How do I convert/create a D string from LPVOID (void*)?
string GetLastErrorMessage() {

        LPVOID lpMsgBuf;
        DWORD errorMessageID = GetLastError();

        FormatMessageA(
                FORMAT_MESSAGE_ALLOCATE_BUFFER |
                FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM |
                FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS,
                NULL,
                errorMessageID,
                MAKELANGID(LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_DEFAULT),
                cast(LPSTR) &lpMsgBuf,
                0, NULL);


        return ??
}

If you're using this solely for Windows error messages, the 
std.windows.syserror module has a function, sysErrorString, which 
wraps it up for you. It also provides a WindowsException you can 
throw which, given an Windows error code, will contain a 
formatted system error message.

https://dlang.org/phobos/std_windows_syserror.html