Undefined reference to 'GetDefaultPrinterA'

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Hi,

I'm trying to get the name of the default printer with GetDefaultPrinter. I'm using WinXP.
The Problem is I'm always getting an "undefined reference" error from the linker, although I have included the libwinspool for linking(I'm succesfully using other functions from libwinspool).
Any idea?

Thanks.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Could you post your "Basic 3" please - see the thread titled "Please Read Before Posting a Question" in this forum for what they are if you do not know.

Wayne

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Ok, now that I'm on my home computer where I actually have a reasonably up to date version of dev, I see that they have this in winspool.h

if _WIN32_WINNT >= 0x0500

BOOL WINAPI GetDefaultPrinterA(LPSTR,LPDWORD);
BOOL WINAPI GetDefaultPrinterW(LPWSTR,LPDWORD);

endif

So, you have to add a line like this to your code

define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0500

Whenever you come across a problem like this the first thing to do is look in the related headers to see if the function is actually declared, and if it is, is it inside an #if block.

b_a

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Have you looked in the winspool.h file to see if GetDefaultPrinter is declared? Sometimes things are left out of the header files.

If it isn't you can add this to your code (or in winspool.h) and see if it works.

I got this from
http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~pcprogs/install/Microsoft_SDK/Include/WinSpool.h

BOOL
WINAPI
GetDefaultPrinterA(
IN LPSTR pszBuffer,
IN LPDWORD pcchBuffer
);
BOOL
WINAPI
GetDefaultPrinterW(
IN LPWSTR pszBuffer,
IN LPDWORD pcchBuffer
);

ifdef UNICODE

define GetDefaultPrinter GetDefaultPrinterW

else

define GetDefaultPrinter GetDefaultPrinterA

endif // !UNICODE

b_a

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Oh, just looked at that again.. I think you'll probably need to remove the word IN in those declarations..

b_a