> The former does not in fact work everywhere, it only works on Windows.
It's just some example code. Real code will probably try a number of variables.
> Calling getenv("APPDATA") is a perfectly fine way of fetching FOLDERID_RoamingAppData
Okay then. Top level post said you needed a Win32 function for this. If you can do that without those functions, I suppose it's easy enough to support.
> calling getpwuid if $HOME was undefined
$HOME is set by login and ssh to whatever is in the passwd database. Can it ever be undefined? Seems like something is seriously wrong if it is.
It's just some example code. Real code will probably try a number of variables.
> Calling getenv("APPDATA") is a perfectly fine way of fetching FOLDERID_RoamingAppData
Okay then. Top level post said you needed a Win32 function for this. If you can do that without those functions, I suppose it's easy enough to support.
> calling getpwuid if $HOME was undefined
$HOME is set by login and ssh to whatever is in the passwd database. Can it ever be undefined? Seems like something is seriously wrong if it is.