C++ Downloading a file to appdata

Question

I'm trying to download a file to

 char* appdata = getenv("APPDATA");
lpURLDownloadToFile URLDownloadToFile;
HMODULE hUrlmon = LoadLibrary("URLMON.DLL");
URLDownloadToFile = (lpURLDownloadToFile)GetProcAddress(hUrlmon, "URLDownloadToFileA");
URLDownloadToFile(0, "http://example.com/test.zip",appdata+"test.zip", 0, 0);

I don't have an error when I write the path manually,But ı got error when I try to use appdata+"test.zip"

How can I do it. Thanks.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 05 '14 at 14:27

You cannot combine char* pointers by adding them like so, you need to concatenate those strings. You might want to use std:string instead which support operator+=.

std::string appdata(getenv("APPDATA"));
appdata += "test.zip";

HMODULE hUrlmon = LoadLibrary("URLMON.DLL");
URLDownloadToFile = (lpURLDownloadToFile)GetProcAddress(hUrlmon, "URLDownloadToFileA");
URLDownloadToFile(0, "http://example.com/test.zip", appdata.c_str(), 0, 0);

C++ Downloading a file to appdata

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