Using ZigWin32 may be the least painful way to talk to Windows. https://github.com/marlersoft/zigwin32
#Is it possible to call WinRT APIs on Windows ?
blazing lynx
opaque pond
umm does win32 call any windows apis ?will try so , thanks
sorry if i may ask but how to add it in zon ?
ah just found zig fetch , ty
am i doing it right ?
const win32Zig = b.dependency("zigwin32", .{});
exe.root_module.addImport("zigwin32", win32Zig.module("zigwin32"));
I'm getting
unable to find module
it's in the zon file
okay found module name it is win32 , works now , now gonna try
well nah as i expected I can't call api from WinRT from win32 apis
Is it possible to call WinRT APIs on Windows ?
flat void
WinRT is based on COM technology. It needs some magic. There is no zig library for that magic. So you need to do it manually: https://www.codeproject.com/articles/COM-in-C I haven't read that article, but from what I remember from 1999 when I last did COM. There is a tool for generating a C++ interface structure from interface-files. The interface files should be part of the SDK.
Microsoft made a rust COM library, maybe it is easier to write a wrapper in rust?
If there was a library it would probably be named zig-ATL (active template library) or zig-COM.
opaque pond
idk i just want to get the SMTC (SystemMediaTransportControls) so bad in my app but it's not related to zig , and its more in C++ A language i hate , if it was C , i would be happy to dive in and nah i dont like rust syntax so it will be hard for me to get wrapper
flat void
Then probably the only thing that is left, is making your zig code a dll, calling it from C# and doing WinRT in C#. An example of DllImport: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79244796/c-sharp-to-c-interop-and-memory-allocation
obsidian lava
just do COM manually if u only need that