/pidgin/main: b6f09494adda: cross-win32: hide glib bug of mismat...

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On 17.04.2014 18:05, Daniel Atallah wrote:
> I don't think this is going to work correctly - we need to use g_stat 
> because it handles mapping the filename to the appropriate encoding
> before calling the native API - internal strings in libpurple are UTF-8
> and are converted to w_char before calling _wstat().
> 
> If you look at 
> https://developer.gnome.org/glib/2.30/glib-File-Utilities.html#g-stat 
> there's an explanation of what's going on.
> 
> GStatBuf needs to be the 32-bit stat structure (since it's going to call 
> _wstat()) - this default behavior for mingw, but not for mingw64 or MSVC.
> 
> gstdio.h has some special handling for msvc, but not (yet?) for mingw64
> (I guess an upstream patch is probably appropriate to fix that).
> 
> If mingw64 is being used for 32-bit builds, we'll need to redefine stat
> to _stat32 before gstdio.h is included or redefine GStatBuf to _stat32
> after the include.

Or just use GFileInfo.

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