#940 VarDecFromStr should take LPCOLESTR and not OLESTR*

[Mateusz Loskot]

The mingw-w64-headers/include/oleauto.h contains

WINOLEAUTAPI VarDecFromStr(OLECHAR *strIn,LCID lcid,ULONG dwFlags,DECIMAL *pdecOut);

but the valid prototype of this function is

HRESULT VarDecFromStr(
  [in]  LPCOLESTR strIn,
  [in]  LCID      lcid,
  [in]  ULONG     dwFlags,
  [out] DECIMAL   *pdecOut
);

That is. OLECHAR *strIn should be changed to LPCOLESTR to avoid compile errors like

error: invalid conversion
  from 'LPCOLESTR' {aka 'const wchar_t*'}
  to 'OLECHAR*' {aka 'wchar_t*'} [-fpermissive]

[Ozkan Sezer]

Please send this to the mingw-w64-public mailing list. Very unfortunately, the issue tracker doesn't get much attention.

[Mateusz Loskot]

Apparently, this has been patched and fixed, see
https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/mailman/message/37670051/