Problems with Unicode / Mulitbyte

Crashdog

I need to get some data from LDAP and found an example here : https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367016(v=vs.85).aspx
I tried to add these lines to my programm:

 PCHAR hostName = "fabrikam.com";
 LDAP* pLdapConnection = NULL;    
pLdapConnection = ldap_init(hostName, LDAP_PORT);

I've tried PCHAR hostName = L"fabrikam.com";
PCHAR hostName = _T("fabrikam.com");

#ifdef _UNICODE
#ifndef UNICODE
#define UNICODE
#endif
#endif
#include <windows.h>

in the .pro file
DEFINES -= UNICODE
DEFINES += _MBCS

But I keep getting the same error nomatter what.

Crashdog

OK, so this works...
char hostName[] = "dczrh.juliusbaer.com";
no other changes needed.

Also for the ldap library add in the .pro file:
LIBS += -lwldap32

Chris Kawa

You're mixing ANSI and "universal" calls. You shouldn't do that as it won't compile in unicode mode.
These are the valid options:

Use ANSI explicitly:

CHAR hostName[] = "dczrh.juliusbaer.com";
ldap_initA(hostName, LDAP_PORT);

Use UNICODE explicitly:

WCHAR hostName[] = L"dczrh.juliusbaer.com";
ldap_initW(hostName, LDAP_PORT);

Use "universal" code which will expand to one of the above depending on the UNICODE macro being defined or not:

TCHAR hostName[] = _T("dczrh.juliusbaer.com");
ldap_init(hostName, LDAP_PORT);

Crashdog

Thank you for clarifying, I wasn't aware of that.