On Monday 18 October 2010 16:58:31 Jeff Flinn wrote:
Windows NT and above have the "USERPROFILE" environment variable. Using this would be the easiest to use. But I've seen discussion that this may not always be properly defined, in particular if the user has reset their home directory to a non-system drive. I haven't tracked down it's availability on WinCE. Does anyone have experience with this platform?
MS Windows CE doesn't have environment variables at all.
There is the windows GetUserProfileDirectory api function also available since NT4. This is in the Userenv.lib/dll, obviously adding a link dependancy.
Concerning CE, I don't think this will work there. The point is that CE is essentially a single-user system. There is an equivalent though, for the user's files.
How are these sorts of system link dependencies handled? Through bjam? Or is it acceptable/better to use #pragma comment(lib,"Userenv.lib")?
Using that #pragma is not portable, otherwise I would prefer it. Uli