Re: [Patch] Replace deprecated WSAStringToAddressA

[Chris Ruehl <chris.ruehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, June 07, 2017 02:09 PM, Aris Adamantiadis wrote:
> On 7/06/17 07:40, Chris Ruehl wrote:
> > -    rc = WSAStringToAddressA((LPSTR) str,
> > +    rc = WSAStringToAddressW((LPWSTR) str,
>
> Hi Chris,
>
>
> Does the cast from char * to LPWSTR really work that way? I'm not very
> well experienced in Windows programming but if I recall properly you're
> supposed to convert the C string into a unicode wide string before using
> the -W family functions. Am I mistaken?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Aris

I'd linked it with my application where I use the pure IP-address to connect to 
a host. Verified its works well. I used QTCreator which shows the parameter list 
so I used it for the cast.

I don't want to open the box and change all to wchar_t :o)

Chris