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Windows: Remove use of deprecated function SHGetFolderPath and use SHGetKnownFolderPath instead #5862

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@kit-ty-kate kit-ty-kate commented Feb 28, 2024

Fixes #5861

Based on the 6 years old comment at the top of OPAMW_SHGetFolderPath we might probably want to use the new API and don't want to spend the time supporting such an old system

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Thanks for this - apart from getting rid of youthfully exuberent (= daft) comments of mine from the source code, the fact SHGetKnownFolderPath handles allocation itself will automatically deal with long paths (which wasn't a thing when I wrote the original code; I just still harboured an unhealthy desire to keep old OSes working...!). I have a hunch that long paths might be what's gone wrong in the original issue (although it's surprising).

My instinct would be to have a single C stub taking a variant (more closely wrapping one API function), but actually I think your instinct is better in having separate functions! 🙂

We need to link opam with ole32 (for CoTaskMemFree) and uuid (for the FOLDERID_ "constants") - I'm pushing a commit which hopefully does that bit!

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@kit-ty-kate kit-ty-kate force-pushed the windows-SHGetKnownFolderPath branch 5 times, most recently from c3d8903 to 8d630a6 Compare February 29, 2024 10:32
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…GetKnownFolderPath instead

Co-authored-by: David Allsopp <david.allsopp@metastack.com>
Co-authored-by: David Allsopp <david.allsopp@metastack.com>
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LGTM, thanks!

@kit-ty-kate kit-ty-kate merged commit 1eeaa74 into ocaml:master Mar 4, 2024
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Opam for windows : make cold fails with OPAMW_SHGetFolderPath
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