Re: GetEnvironmentVariable

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From: Ed Mulroy
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 14:45

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The function prototype calls for an AnsiString by value and the code passes 
it a char* literal.

See if this works:

  Name = "USETNAME";
  Name = GetEnvironmentVariable(Name);

.  Ed

> Joanne wrote in message
> news:43e9b3ee$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
> The code fragment is as follows:-
> AnsiString Name;
>
>    Name = GetEnvironmentVariable("USERNAME");
>
> The error message is:-
>
> [Linker Error] Unresolved external '__fastcall
> Sysutils::GetEnvironmentVariableA(const System::AnsiString)'
> referenced from C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\MY
> DOCUMENTS\MYFILE.OBJ
>
> I am using Borland 6 Professional,
> the description of the routine in Borland is that it is in the
> SysUtils unit, defined as follows:-
>
> extern PACKAGE AnsiString__fastcall GetEnvironmentVariable
> (const AnsiString Name);

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