migrating VS2008 to VS2012 SHGetFolderPath(..) compilation error.

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Hi All,

I am migrating VS2008 to VS2012 Project.
as the Include File of shfolder.h is no more supported in VS2012
i have included "shlobj.h" file.

when i replace this i am getting errors as

error C2065: 'PFNSHGETFOLDERPATHW' : undeclared identifier
error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'pfnSHGetFolderPath'
error C2065: 'pfnSHGetFolderPath' : undeclared identifier
error C2065: 'pfnSHGetFolderPath' : undeclared identifier
error C2065: 'pfnSHGetFolderPath' : undeclared identifier
error C2065: 'PFNSHGETFOLDERPATHW' : undeclared identifier
//.....

what to do for replace SHGetFolderPath(...) in VS2012.

Thanks,
uday

Posted 22-Aug-13 0:05am

janaswamy uday

Updated 22-Aug-13 0:43am

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max_nowak 22-Aug-13 6:53am

Have you included Shell32.lib to your project?

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KarstenK · Answer 1 · 2013-08-22T01:04:00

Solution 1

cut of the "W" and it should be fine from: PFNSHGETFOLDERPATHW

The headers have changed and it wont run on Windows XP!!!!

Posted 22-Aug-13 1:04am

KarstenK