Re: PCSC-lite 1.8.8 wintypes.h typedef for LPCTSTR missing on Mac OS

2013/8/4 Russell Rezaian <[email protected]>:
> Hello,

Hello,

> I was just recently trying to compile the Global Platform 6.0.0 libraries on
> a Mac (OSX 10.7.4) and ran into a compile time error where LPCTSTR was
> reported as not defined.
>
> After a little investigation, the Global Platform code is including
> PCSC/wintypes.h which should define LPCTSTR (and which does define LPCTSTR
> for non-Apple platforms).
>
> However, in the 1.8.8 version of PCSC-lite wintypes.h there is an ifdef for
> __APPLE__ and the defines for LPTSTR and LPCTSTR are only in the
> non-__APPLE__ else block.
>
> I think this might be a bug.

On Mac OS X you should use the PCSC framework provided by Apple and
not pcsc-lite 1.8.8. pcsc-lite 1.8.8 is not supposed to be used on Mac
OS X.

The header file is at
/System/Library/Frameworks/PCSC.framework/Headers/wintypes.h and
contains:

    /* these types are deprecated but still used by old drivers and applications
     * You should use LPSTR instead */
    typedef char *LPTSTR ;
    typedef const char *LPCTSTR ;

> I added the two missing typdefs back into the earlier ifdef block and things
> seem compile properly.
>
> I know these two defines are not used in the current PCSC-lite, but since
> some code does seem to still use them, I thought it might be worth reporting
> this.
>
> Hopefully this is a useful level of detail.  I can provide more details (and
> diffs) if requested.

Your code (or Global Platform 6.0.0 libraries) should use something like:
#ifdef __APPLE__
#include <PCSC/wintypes.h>
#endif

Bye

-- 
 Dr. Ludovic Rousseau