<refentry id="glib-Windows-Compatability-Functions">
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>Windows Compatibility Functions</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
<refmiscinfo>GLIB Library</refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>

<refnamediv>
<refname>Windows Compatibility Functions</refname><refpurpose>UNIX emulation on Windows.</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>

<refsynopsisdiv><title>Synopsis</title>

<synopsis>

#include &lt;glib.h&gt;


#define     <link linkend="MAXPATHLEN-CAPS">MAXPATHLEN</link>
typedef     <link linkend="pid-t">pid_t</link>;
#define     <link linkend="pipe">pipe</link>                            (phandles)
#define     <link linkend="ftruncate">ftruncate</link>                       (fd, size)
<link linkend="gchar">gchar</link>*      <link linkend="g-win32-error-message">g_win32_error_message</link>           (<link linkend="gint">gint</link> error);
<link linkend="gchar">gchar</link>*      <link linkend="g-win32-getlocale">g_win32_getlocale</link>               (void);
<link linkend="gchar">gchar</link>*      <link linkend="g-win32-get-package-installation-directory">g_win32_get_package_installation_directory</link>
                                            (<link linkend="gchar">gchar</link> *package,
                                             <link linkend="gchar">gchar</link> *dll_name);
<link linkend="gchar">gchar</link>*      <link linkend="g-win32-get-package-installation-subdirectory">g_win32_get_package_installation_subdirectory</link>
                                            (<link linkend="gchar">gchar</link> *package,
                                             <link linkend="gchar">gchar</link> *dll_name,
                                             <link linkend="gchar">gchar</link> *subdir);
#define     <link linkend="G-WIN32-DLLMAIN-FOR-DLL-NAME-CAPS">G_WIN32_DLLMAIN_FOR_DLL_NAME</link>    (static, dll_name)

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<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para>

</para>
</refsect1>

<refsect1>
<title>Details</title>
<refsect2>
<title><anchor id="MAXPATHLEN-CAPS"/>MAXPATHLEN</title>
<indexterm><primary>MAXPATHLEN</primary></indexterm><programlisting>#define MAXPATHLEN 1024
</programlisting>
<para>
Provided for UNIX emulation on Windows; equivalent to UNIX 
macro <literal>MAXPATHLEN</literal>, which is the maximum length of a filename
(including full path).
</para></refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title><anchor id="pid-t"/>pid_t</title>
<indexterm><primary>pid_t</primary></indexterm><programlisting>typedef int pid_t;
</programlisting>
<para>
Provided for UNIX emulation on Windows; process ID type.
</para></refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title><anchor id="pipe"/>pipe()</title>
<indexterm><primary>pipe</primary></indexterm><programlisting>#define pipe(phandles)	_pipe (phandles, 4096, _O_BINARY)
</programlisting>
<para>
Provided for UNIX emulation on Windows; see documentation for <function><link linkend="pipe"><function>pipe()</function></link></function>
in any UNIX manual.
</para><variablelist role="params">
<varlistentry><term><parameter>phandles</parameter>&nbsp;:</term>
<listitem><simpara>


</simpara></listitem></varlistentry>
</variablelist></refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title><anchor id="ftruncate"/>ftruncate()</title>
<indexterm><primary>ftruncate</primary></indexterm><programlisting>#    define ftruncate(fd, size)	g_win32_ftruncate (fd, size)
</programlisting>
<para>
Provided for UNIX emulation on Windows; see documentation for <function><link linkend="ftruncate"><function>ftruncate()</function></link></function>
in any UNIX manual.
</para><variablelist role="params">
<varlistentry><term><parameter>fd</parameter>&nbsp;:</term>
<listitem><simpara>
</simpara></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><parameter>size</parameter>&nbsp;:</term>
<listitem><simpara>


</simpara></listitem></varlistentry>
</variablelist></refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title><anchor id="g-win32-error-message"/>g_win32_error_message ()</title>
<indexterm><primary>g_win32_error_message</primary></indexterm><programlisting><link linkend="gchar">gchar</link>*      g_win32_error_message           (<link linkend="gint">gint</link> error);</programlisting>
<para>
Translate a Win32 error code (as returned by <link linkend="GetLastError"><function>GetLastError()</function></link>) into
the corresponding message. The message is either language neutral,
or in the thread's language, or the user's language, the system's
language, or US English (see docs for <link linkend="FormatMessage"><function>FormatMessage()</function></link>). *
The returned string should be deallocated with <link linkend="g-free"><function>g_free()</function></link>.</para>
<para>

</para><variablelist role="params">
<varlistentry><term><parameter>error</parameter>&nbsp;:</term>
<listitem><simpara> error code.
</simpara></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><emphasis>Returns</emphasis> :</term><listitem><simpara> newly-allocated error message
</simpara></listitem></varlistentry>
</variablelist></refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title><anchor id="g-win32-getlocale"/>g_win32_getlocale ()</title>
<indexterm><primary>g_win32_getlocale</primary></indexterm><programlisting><link linkend="gchar">gchar</link>*      g_win32_getlocale               (void);</programlisting>
<para>
The setlocale in the Microsoft C library uses locale names of the
form "English_United States.1252" etc. We want the UNIXish standard
form "en_US", "zh_TW" etc. This function gets the current thread
locale from Windows - without any encoding info - and returns it as
a string of the above form for use in forming file names etc. The
returned string should be deallocated with <link linkend="g-free"><function>g_free()</function></link>.</para>
<para>

</para><variablelist role="params">
<varlistentry><term><emphasis>Returns</emphasis> :</term><listitem><simpara> newly-allocated locale name.
</simpara></listitem></varlistentry>
</variablelist></refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title><anchor id="g-win32-get-package-installation-directory"/>g_win32_get_package_installation_directory ()</title>
<indexterm><primary>g_win32_get_package_installation_directory</primary></indexterm><programlisting><link linkend="gchar">gchar</link>*      g_win32_get_package_installation_directory
                                            (<link linkend="gchar">gchar</link> *package,
                                             <link linkend="gchar">gchar</link> *dll_name);</programlisting>
<para>
Try to determine the installation directory for a software package.
Typically used by GNU software packages.
</para>
<para>
<parameter>package</parameter> should be a short identifier for the package. Typically it
is the same identifier as used for
<literal>GETTEXT_PACKAGE</literal> in software configured according
to GNU standards. The function first looks in the Windows Registry
for the value <literal>&num;InstallationDirectory</literal> in the key
<literal>&num;HKLM\Software\<parameter>package</parameter></literal>, and if that value
exists and is a string, returns that.
</para>
<para>
If <parameter>package</parameter> is <literal>NULL</literal>, or the above value isn't found in the
Registry, but <parameter>dll_name</parameter> is non-<literal>NULL</literal>, it should name a DLL loaded
into the current process. Typically that would be the name of the
DLL calling this function, looking for its installation
directory. The function then asks Windows what directory that DLL
was loaded from. If that directory's last component is "bin" or
"lib", the parent directory is returned, otherwise the directory
itself. If that DLL isn't loaded, the function proceeds as if
<parameter>dll_name</parameter> was <literal>NULL</literal>.
</para>
<para>
If both <parameter>package</parameter> and <parameter>dll_name</parameter> are <literal>NULL</literal>, the directory from where
the main executable of the process was loaded is uses instead in
the same way as above.</para>
<para>

</para><variablelist role="params">
<varlistentry><term><parameter>package</parameter>&nbsp;:</term>
<listitem><simpara> An identifier for a software package, or <literal>NULL</literal>
</simpara></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><parameter>dll_name</parameter>&nbsp;:</term>
<listitem><simpara> The name of a DLL that a package provides, or <literal>NULL</literal>.
</simpara></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><emphasis>Returns</emphasis> :</term><listitem><simpara> a string containing the installation directory for <parameter>package</parameter>.
The return value should be freed with <link linkend="g-free"><function>g_free()</function></link> when not needed any longer.
</simpara></listitem></varlistentry>
</variablelist></refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title><anchor id="g-win32-get-package-installation-subdirectory"/>g_win32_get_package_installation_subdirectory ()</title>
<indexterm><primary>g_win32_get_package_installation_subdirectory</primary></indexterm><programlisting><link linkend="gchar">gchar</link>*      g_win32_get_package_installation_subdirectory
                                            (<link linkend="gchar">gchar</link> *package,
                                             <link linkend="gchar">gchar</link> *dll_name,
                                             <link linkend="gchar">gchar</link> *subdir);</programlisting>
<para>
Returns a newly-allocated string containing the path of the
subdirectory <parameter>subdir</parameter> in the return value from calling
<link linkend="g-win32-get-package-installation-directory"><function>g_win32_get_package_installation_directory()</function></link> with the <parameter>package</parameter> and
<parameter>dll_name</parameter> parameters.</para>
<para>

</para><variablelist role="params">
<varlistentry><term><parameter>package</parameter>&nbsp;:</term>
<listitem><simpara> An identifier for a software package, or <literal>NULL</literal>.
</simpara></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><parameter>dll_name</parameter>&nbsp;:</term>
<listitem><simpara> The name of a DLL that a package provides, or <literal>NULL</literal>.
</simpara></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><parameter>subdir</parameter>&nbsp;:</term>
<listitem><simpara> A subdirectory of the package installation directory.
</simpara></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><emphasis>Returns</emphasis> :</term><listitem><simpara> a string containing the complete path to <parameter>subdir</parameter> inside the 
installation directory of <parameter>package</parameter>. The return value should be freed with
<link linkend="g-free"><function>g_free()</function></link> when no longer needed.
</simpara></listitem></varlistentry>
</variablelist></refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title><anchor id="G-WIN32-DLLMAIN-FOR-DLL-NAME-CAPS"/>G_WIN32_DLLMAIN_FOR_DLL_NAME()</title>
<indexterm><primary>G_WIN32_DLLMAIN_FOR_DLL_NAME</primary></indexterm><programlisting>#define     G_WIN32_DLLMAIN_FOR_DLL_NAME(static, dll_name)</programlisting>
<para>
On Windows, this macro defines a <function><link linkend="DllMain"><function>DllMain()</function></link></function> function 
that stores the actual DLL name that the code being compiled will be 
included in.
</para>
<para>
On non-Windows platforms, expands to nothing.
</para><variablelist role="params">
<varlistentry><term><parameter>static</parameter>&nbsp;:</term>
<listitem><simpara>empty or "static".
</simpara></listitem></varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><parameter>dll_name</parameter>&nbsp;:</term>
<listitem><simpara>the name of the (pointer to the) char array where the DLL name 
   will be stored. If this is used, you must also include 
   <filename>windows.h</filename>. If you need a more complex DLL entry 
   point function, you cannot use this.
</simpara></listitem></varlistentry>
</variablelist></refsect2>

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