1201803 - Failed to compile MapiApi.cpp: error C2664: cannot convert argument from 'char16_t *' to 'LPWSTR'

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1198936

(Thunderbird :: Migration, defect)

Description

[Thomasy]

Attachment: log.txt

Trying to build Thunderbird on Windows 7 and VS2015

> d:/mozilla-source/comm-central/mailnews/import/outlook/src/MapiApi.cpp(299): error C2664: 'int MultiByteToWideChar(UINT,DWORD,LPCCH,int,LPWSTR,int)': cannot convert argument 5 from 'char16_t *' to 'LPWSTR'
> d:/mozilla-source/comm-central/mailnews/import/outlook/src/MapiApi.cpp(307): error C2664: 'int MultiByteToWideChar(UINT,DWORD,LPCCH,int,LPWSTR,int)': cannot convert argument 5 from 'char16_t *' to 'LPWSTR'
> d:/mozilla-source/comm-central/mailnews/import/outlook/src/MapiApi.cpp(997): error C2664: 'int MultiByteToWideChar(UINT,DWORD,LPCCH,int,LPWSTR,int)': cannot convert argument 5 from 'char16_t *' to 'LPWSTR'
> d:/mozilla-source/comm-central/mailnews/import/oexpress/WabObject.cpp(525): error C2664: 'int MultiByteToWideChar(UINT,DWORD,LPCCH,int,LPWSTR,int)': cannot convert argument 5 from 'char16_t *' to 'LPWSTR'
> d:/mozilla-source/comm-central/mailnews/import/oexpress/WabObject.cpp(533): error C2664: 'int MultiByteToWideChar(UINT,DWORD,LPCCH,int,LPWSTR,int)': cannot convert argument 5 from 'char16_t *' to 'LPWSTR'
> d:/mozilla-source/comm-central/mailnews/import/outlook/src/MapiMessage.cpp(603): error C2664: 'nsresult nsIUnicodeEncoder::Convert(const char16_t *,int32_t *,char *,int32_t *)': cannot convert argument 1 from 'const wchar_t *' to 'const char16_t *'
> d:/mozilla-source/comm-central/mailnews/import/outlook/src/MapiMessage.cpp(650): error C2665: 'Substring': none of the 8 overloads could convert all the argument types

Comment 1

[Thomasy]

I seems look similar to bug 1200187

Comment 2

[Xidorn Quan [:xidorn] UTC+10]

Then the solution is also similar: just change the type of those variable from char16_t* to char16ptr_t, this issue should be fixed then.

Comment 3

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

Duplicate of 1198936

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1198936