Question

i have this code i don´t have experience in windows:

#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>


   typedef BOOL (WINAPI *P_GDFSE)(LPCTSTR, PULARGE_INTEGER, 
                                  PULARGE_INTEGER, PULARGE_INTEGER);

   void main (int argc, char **argv)
   {
      BOOL  fResult;

      char  *pszDrive  = NULL,
             szDrive[4];

      DWORD dwSectPerClust,
            dwBytesPerSect,
            dwFreeClusters,
            dwTotalClusters;

      P_GDFSE pGetDiskFreeSpaceEx = NULL;

      unsigned __int64 i64FreeBytesToCaller,
                       i64TotalBytes,
                       i64FreeBytes;


      if (argc != 2)
      {
         printf ("usage:  %s <drive|UNC path>\n", argv[0]);
         printf ("\texample:  %s C:\\\n", argv[0]);
         return;
      }

      pszDrive = argv[1];

      if (pszDrive[1] == ':')
      {
         szDrive[0] = pszDrive[0];
         szDrive[1] = ':';
         szDrive[2] = '\\';
         szDrive[3] = '\0';

         pszDrive = szDrive;
      }

     // FIRST ERROR  kernel32.dll
      pGetDiskFreeSpaceEx = (P_GDFSE)GetProcAddress (
                               GetModuleHandle ("kernel32.dll"),
                                              "GetDiskFreeSpaceExA");
       // SECOND ERROR pszDrive
      if (pGetDiskFreeSpaceEx)
      {
         fResult = pGetDiskFreeSpaceEx (pszDrive,
                                 (PULARGE_INTEGER)&i64FreeBytesToCaller,
                                 (PULARGE_INTEGER)&i64TotalBytes,
                                 (PULARGE_INTEGER)&i64FreeBytes);
         if (fResult)
         {
            printf ("\n\nGetDiskFreeSpaceEx reports\n\n");
            printf ("Available space to caller = %I64u MB\n",
                    i64FreeBytesToCaller / (1024*1024));
            printf ("Total space               = %I64u MB\n",
                    i64TotalBytes / (1024*1024));
            printf ("Free space on drive       = %I64u MB\n",
                    i64FreeBytes / (1024*1024));
         }
      }
      else
      {
         // ERROR 3 pszDrive
         fResult = GetDiskFreeSpace (pszDrive, 
                                     &dwSectPerClust,
                                     &dwBytesPerSect, 
                                     &dwFreeClusters,
                                     &dwTotalClusters);
         if (fResult)
         {
            /* force 64-bit math */ 
            i64TotalBytes = (__int64)dwTotalClusters * dwSectPerClust *
                              dwBytesPerSect;
            i64FreeBytes = (__int64)dwFreeClusters * dwSectPerClust *
                              dwBytesPerSect;

            printf ("GetDiskFreeSpace reports\n\n");
            printf ("Free space  = %I64u MB\n", 
                    i64FreeBytes / (1024*1024));
            printf ("Total space = %I64u MB\n", 
                    i64TotalBytes / (1024*1024));
         }
      }

      if (!fResult)
         printf ("error: %lu:  could not get free space for \"%s\"\n",
                 GetLastError(), argv[1]);
   }

i’m getting these errors(visual studio 2010 ultimate):

at kernel32.dll:

pGetDiskFreeSpaceEx = (P_GDFSE)GetProcAddress (
GetModuleHandle (“kernel32.dll”),
“GetDiskFreeSpaceExA”);

Error: argument of type const char* is incompatible with parameter of type “LPCWSTR”

at pszDrive:

fResult = pGetDiskFreeSpaceEx (pszDrive,
                                 (PULARGE_INTEGER)&i64FreeBytesToCaller,
                                 (PULARGE_INTEGER)&i64TotalBytes,
                                 (PULARGE_INTEGER)&i64FreeBytes);

Error: argument of type char* is incompatible with parameter of type “LPCTSTR”

at pszDrive:

 fResult = GetDiskFreeSpace (pszDrive, 
                                     &dwSectPerClust,
                                     &dwBytesPerSect, 
                                     &dwFreeClusters,
                                     &dwTotalClusters);

Error: argument of type char* is incompatible with parameter of type “LPCWSTR”

thanks a lot

Answer 1

The simplest solution would be to change the project settings to the multi-byte character set.

To do this, right-click on the project in the Solution Explorer, select Properties. Select General in the left-hand pane of the properties dialog. Find Character Set and change it to “Use Multi-Byte Character Set”.

If you’re going to be doing a lot of Windows programming, though, you should get used to Unicode. Basically that means using wchar_t (or TCHAR) instead of char, including in constant strings:

      pGetDiskFreeSpaceEx = (P_GDFSE)GetProcAddress (
                                          GetModuleHandle (L"kernel32.dll"),
                                          "GetDiskFreeSpaceExW");

In this case, as Adam correctly pointed out, you also need to change the function name from the A version to the W version.