Whats the best way to walk a directory to list files?

[Gary Willoughby]

Whats the best way to walk a directory to list files?

Basically, i have a starting directory and i want to grab the files from that directory and display them in a console. Do i need to use the os api commands for that? Is there a cross-platform way?

Any ideas or snippets?

[TimoVJL]

opendir() readdir() closedir() are usable in linux too.
Remember to use compiler option Define compatibility names.

_findfirst(), _findnext() and _findclose() are MSVC-functions for that.

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/* opendir example*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <dirent.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
DIR *dir;
struct dirent *de;

dir = opendir(".");
while(dir) {
de = readdir(dir);
if (!de) break;
printf("%i %s\n", de->d_type, de->d_name);
}
closedir(dir);
return 0;
}

[Gary Willoughby]

Thanks a lot!

I had to change it to this to work in PellesC

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#include <dirent.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
_DIR *dir;
struct _dirent *de;

dir = _opendir(".");
while(dir) {
de = _readdir(dir);
if (!de) break;
printf("%i %s\n", de->d_type, de->d_name);
}
_closedir(dir);
return 0;
}


[TimoVJL]

Remember to use compiler option Define compatibility names.
So use -Go  -> (oldnames.lib)

[Gary Willoughby]

Ah right. What does that flag do?

[Stefan Pendl]

What does that flag do?

Did you already check the Pelles C documentation of the compiler and linker options?

[Gary Willoughby]

What does that flag do?

Did you already check the Pelles C documentation of the compiler and linker options?

Got it thanks!