Re: Getting environment variables?
Better late than never...
On Sunday, 23 November 2008 at 02:28:30 UTC, Christopher Wright
wrote:
...
I thought (perhaps wrongly) C allowed you to declare main as
taking a list of environment variables, which is why I asked
Indeed, on Unix { not POSIX } and Windows:
From Wiki:
==
Other platform-dependent formats are also allowed by the C and
C++ standards, except that in C++ the return type must always be
int;[3] for example, Unix (though not POSIX.1) and Microsoft
Windows have a third argument giving the program's environment,
otherwise accessible through getenv in stdlib.h:
int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp);
Mac OS X and Darwin have a fourth parameter containing arbitrary
OS-supplied information, such as the path to the executing
binary:[4]
==
Mark
Re: Getting environment variables?
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:53:20 +0300, Christopher Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John C wrote: novice2 Wrote: i am afraid that windows API named *W works with UCS2 string. but D wchar[] is UTF-16. Wrong - Windows has used UTF-16 as native since Windows 2000. Actually, you're both right. UCS2 is UTF-16. No. A quote from Wikipedia: Because of the technical similarities and upwards compatibility from UCS-2 to UTF-16, the two encodings are often erroneously conflated and used as if interchangeable, so that strings encoded in UTF-16 are sometimes misidentified as being encoded in UCS-2. UTF-16 is the native internal representation of text in the Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/CE; Qualcomm BREW operating systems; the Java and .NET bytecode environments; Mac OS X's Cocoa and Core Foundation frameworks; and the Qt cross-platform graphical widget toolkit. Older Windows NT systems (prior to Windows 2000) only support UCS-2.
Re: Getting environment variables?
homeDrive = toString(getenv(HOMEDRIVE)).dup; homePath = toString(getenv(HOMEPATH)).dup; don't forget, that D char[] is utf8 and windows char* is 8-bit chars, not utf8. so you should import std.windows.charset and use toMBSz() as D-WindowsAPI and fromMBSz as WindowsAPI-D string converter. for example: homeDrive = fromMBSz(getenv(HOMEDRIVE)).dup;
Re: Getting environment variables?
Christopher Wright wrote: Hey all, How do I get environment variables in a D program? I specifically want the path to a user's home folder. Ta muchly. I think the 'correct' way on Windows is to use SHGetSpecialFolderPathA. Something like this: char[MAX_PATH] buf; SHGetSpecialFolderPathA(null, buf.ptr, CSIDL_PERSONAL, false); char[] dir = toString(buf.ptr); or CSIDL_APPDATA, etc.
Re: Getting environment variables?
torhu wrote: Christopher Wright wrote: Hey all, How do I get environment variables in a D program? I specifically want the path to a user's home folder. Ta muchly. I think the 'correct' way on Windows is to use SHGetSpecialFolderPathA. Something like this: char[MAX_PATH] buf; SHGetSpecialFolderPathA(null, buf.ptr, CSIDL_PERSONAL, false); char[] dir = toString(buf.ptr); or CSIDL_APPDATA, etc. In tango this is available in tango.sys.win32.SpecialPath -- Lars Ivar Igesund blog at http://larsivi.net DSource, #d.tango #D: larsivi Dancing the Tango
Getting environment variables?
Hey all, How do I get environment variables in a D program? I specifically want the path to a user's home folder. Ta muchly.
Re: Getting environment variables?
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Christopher Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, How do I get environment variables in a D program? I specifically want the path to a user's home folder. Ta muchly. In Tango, there's tango.sys.Environment (http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/docs/current/tango.sys.Environment.html) which provides a nice interface to environment variables. In Phobos, I think you have to use the C functions to get at environment variables, but std.path.expandTilde can be abused to get the home folder ;)
Re: Getting environment variables?
Reply to Christopher, I thought (perhaps wrongly) C allowed you to declare main as taking a list of environment variables, It does.
