const std = @import("../index.zig"); const builtin = @import("builtin"); const unicode = std.unicode; const mem = std.mem; const os = std.os; pub const GetAppDataDirError = error{ OutOfMemory, AppDataDirUnavailable, }; /// Caller owns returned memory. pub fn getAppDataDir(allocator: *mem.Allocator, appname: []const u8) GetAppDataDirError![]u8 { switch (builtin.os) { builtin.Os.windows => { var dir_path_ptr: [*]u16 = undefined; switch (os.windows.SHGetKnownFolderPath( &os.windows.FOLDERID_LocalAppData, os.windows.KF_FLAG_CREATE, null, &dir_path_ptr, )) { os.windows.S_OK => { defer os.windows.CoTaskMemFree(@ptrCast(*c_void, dir_path_ptr)); const global_dir = unicode.utf16leToUtf8(allocator, utf16lePtrSlice(dir_path_ptr)) catch |err| switch (err) { error.UnexpectedSecondSurrogateHalf => return error.AppDataDirUnavailable, error.ExpectedSecondSurrogateHalf => return error.AppDataDirUnavailable, error.DanglingSurrogateHalf => return error.AppDataDirUnavailable, error.OutOfMemory => return error.OutOfMemory, }; defer allocator.free(global_dir); return os.path.join(allocator, global_dir, appname); }, os.windows.E_OUTOFMEMORY => return error.OutOfMemory, else => return error.AppDataDirUnavailable, } }, // TODO for macos it should be "~/Library/Application Support/" else => { const home_dir = os.getEnvVarOwned(allocator, "HOME") catch |err| switch (err) { error.OutOfMemory => return error.OutOfMemory, error.EnvironmentVariableNotFound => return error.AppDataDirUnavailable, // TODO look in /etc/passwd }; defer allocator.free(home_dir); return os.path.join(allocator, home_dir, ".local", "share", appname); }, } } fn utf16lePtrSlice(ptr: [*]const u16) []const u16 { var index: usize = 0; while (ptr[index] != 0) : (index += 1) {} return ptr[0..index]; } test "getAppDataDir" { const result = try getAppDataDir(std.debug.global_allocator, "zig"); std.debug.warn("{}...", result); }