Re: [Boost-build] Win32 registry functions

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-08 10:18:44

Bojan Resnik wrote:
>   Sometimes, especially when needing to detect installed versions of
> some third-party program, I need functions to enumerate registry
> subkeys or registry values of a given key. I have written two new
> builtin functions W32_REGKEYS and W32_REGVALUES which, given a
> registry key path, return lists of its subkeys and values,
> respectively.
> 
> Example:
>    for local subkey in [ W32_REGKEYS "HKLM\\Software\\Microsoft" ]
>    {
>        ECHO $(subkey) ;
>    }
> 
>    for local value in [ W32_REGVALUES "HKCU\\Environment" ]
>    {
>        ECHO $(value) ;
>    }
> 
> Attached are patches to builtin.c and w32_getreg.c that add these new
> functions to bjam.

How are those different from the existing "W32_GETREG" builtin?

See the bottom of 
<http://engineering.meta-comm.com/resources/cs-win32_metacomm/doc/html/jam/language.html#jam.language.rules.builtins>.

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