Re: VS 2015 support in src/tools/msvc

On 09/04/16 00:41, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 1:46 AM, Christian Ullrich <chris@chrullrich.net> wrote:
>> * Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>
>>> On 04/08/2016 11:02 AM, Christian Ullrich wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>    src/port/chklocale.c(233): warning C4133: 'function': incompatible
>>>>    types - from 'const char *' to 'LPCWSTR' [...\postgres.vcxproj]
>>
>>
>>> Do you have a fix for the LPCWSTR parameter issue?
>>
>>
>> As long as the locale short name cannot contain characters outside of ASCII,
>> and I don't see how it could, just the typical measure-allocate-convert
>> dance, add error handling to taste:
>>
>> int res = MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, 0, ctype, -1, NULL, 0);
>> WCHAR *wctype = malloc(res * sizeof(WCHAR));
>> memset(wctype, 0, res * sizeof(WCHAR));
>> res = MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, 0, ctype, -1, wctype, wctypelen);
>>
>> If it is somehow guaranteed that ctype is only the most basic short name
>> ("xx-YY") with no code pages or anything, it becomes much simpler, of
>> course, and I would just use a loop.
>>
>> If the locale name can contain characters above 0x7f, we'd have to know the
>> code page of the string we use to get the code page.
>
> Could somebody give a try instead of me? I could take a look on it,
> but just in 12 hours or so, aka after the deadline if that matters for
> this patch.
>

I won't be able to get back to it (well mainly to windows environment) 
till Thursday due to travel, sorry.

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