• "D-Ratiseur" <ThisAdressDoesntExist nowhere.fr> Mar 04 2013
• "Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy yahoo.com> Mar 04 2013
• "D-ratiseur" <ThisAdressDoesntExist nowhere.fr> Mar 04 2013
• "cal" <callumenator gmail.com> Mar 04 2013
• "Mike Parker" <aldacron gmail.com> Mar 05 2013
• "Kapps" <opantm2+spam gmail.com> Mar 05 2013

"D-Ratiseur" <ThisAdressDoesntExist nowhere.fr> writes:

Hello, I've noticed that an important function (and probably a 
few others) is missing from Windows.d (SetEndOfFile). I'd like to 
put a FR about this but I don't know where-how. Should I register 
here "http://d.puremagic.com/issues/enter_bug.cgi?product=D" for 
such a stuff (which is not a bug BTW).
Thx.

"Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy yahoo.com> writes:

On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:24:50 -0500, D-Ratiseur  
<ThisAdressDoesntExist nowhere.fr> wrote:

 Hello, I've noticed that an important function (and probably a few  
 others) is missing from Windows.d (SetEndOfFile). I'd like to put a FR  
 about this but I don't know where-how. Should I register here  
 "http://d.puremagic.com/issues/enter_bug.cgi?product=D" for such a stuff  
 (which is not a bug BTW).
 Thx.


Generally, Windows.d is not a complete list.  It's just a list of  
functions from windows core libraries that have been used in  
Phobos/Druntime.  Things get added as they are needed.

Note that the function you want is still present, you just have to declare  
a prototype for it (that is all Windows.d does).

I think at some point someone was trying to create a complete header for  
all windows runtime functions, but I don't know the status of that.

If you want to file a bug for this, you can, just mark it as an  
enhancement.

-Steve

"D-ratiseur" <ThisAdressDoesntExist nowhere.fr> writes:

On Monday, 4 March 2013 at 15:49:20 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
 On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:24:50 -0500, D-Ratiseur 
 <ThisAdressDoesntExist nowhere.fr> wrote:

 Hello, I've noticed that an important function (and probably a 
 few others) is missing from Windows.d (SetEndOfFile). I'd like 
 to put a FR about this but I don't know where-how. Should I 
 register here 
 "http://d.puremagic.com/issues/enter_bug.cgi?product=D" for 
 such a stuff (which is not a bug BTW).
 Thx.


 Generally, Windows.d is not a complete list.  It's just a list 
 of functions from windows core libraries that have been used in 
 Phobos/Druntime.  Things get added as they are needed.

 Note that the function you want is still present, you just have 
 to declare a prototype for it (that is all Windows.d does).

 I think at some point someone was trying to create a complete 
 header for all windows runtime functions, but I don't know the 
 status of that.

 If you want to file a bug for this, you can, just mark it as an 
 enhancement.

 -Steve


Ok, thx, I've created the prototype and also tried to dynamically
link the method. It's true that SetEndOfFile is not used at all
in Phobos, that's explain well why the proto is not declared.

"cal" <callumenator gmail.com> writes:

On Monday, 4 March 2013 at 16:28:36 UTC, D-ratiseur wrote:
 Ok, thx, I've created the prototype and also tried to 
 dynamically
 link the method. It's true that SetEndOfFile is not used at all
 in Phobos, that's explain well why the proto is not declared.


Note you shouldn't need to dynamically link, dmd will link 
against Kernel32.lib anyway. Declaring the proto is enough.

"Mike Parker" <aldacron gmail.com> writes:

On Monday, 4 March 2013 at 18:27:47 UTC, cal wrote:
 On Monday, 4 March 2013 at 16:28:36 UTC, D-ratiseur wrote:
 Ok, thx, I've created the prototype and also tried to 
 dynamically
 link the method. It's true that SetEndOfFile is not used at all
 in Phobos, that's explain well why the proto is not declared.


 Note you shouldn't need to dynamically link, dmd will link 
 against Kernel32.lib anyway. Declaring the proto is enough.


In this particular instance that is true, but I've found that 
it's not always the case. The Win32 link libraries that ship with 
DMD seem to be rather old (unless they've been updated in the 
last year or so). I haven't dug into it too deeply, but I'm 
guessing they're based on the XP era of the API and anything 
added since Vista isn't going to be exposed. That will cause link 
errors. I encountered this with some of the post-XP functions in 
shell32.lib and had to resort to loading them dynamically.

"Kapps" <opantm2+spam gmail.com> writes:

On Tuesday, 5 March 2013 at 08:08:27 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
 On Monday, 4 March 2013 at 18:27:47 UTC, cal wrote:
 On Monday, 4 March 2013 at 16:28:36 UTC, D-ratiseur wrote:
 Ok, thx, I've created the prototype and also tried to 
 dynamically
 link the method. It's true that SetEndOfFile is not used at 
 all
 in Phobos, that's explain well why the proto is not declared.


 Note you shouldn't need to dynamically link, dmd will link 
 against Kernel32.lib anyway. Declaring the proto is enough.


 In this particular instance that is true, but I've found that 
 it's not always the case. The Win32 link libraries that ship 
 with DMD seem to be rather old (unless they've been updated in 
 the last year or so). I haven't dug into it too deeply, but I'm 
 guessing they're based on the XP era of the API and anything 
 added since Vista isn't going to be exposed. That will cause 
 link errors. I encountered this with some of the post-XP 
 functions in shell32.lib and had to resort to loading them 
 dynamically.


You can also just use coffimplib and link to them statically, 
that's the approach I used.

Though I suppose this might be confusing when someone else tries 
compiling your code...