How to reimplement Win32 MAKEINTRESOURCE macro in Zig

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Hello @Skarsh, welcome to the forum.

While LPCWSTR declaration remains the same, zig type system is not going to let you have a misaligned value.
You can use MAKEINTRESOURCEA with LoadCursorA, and use LoadCursorW when you have a string name.

Please note that there are windows bindings automatically generated from windows metadata

There was a similar issue with HWND_TOPMOST passed as a pointer with value -1:

Ptr alignment issue when cImport windows.h

This seems like C compiler semantics and Zig semantics interacting badly, so the unaligned “address” -1 is accepted by a C compiler but not Zig. There might be a good language-level solution to this, like making all [*c] pointers align(1). I don’t think there’s a good workaround for this except to redefine redeclare the SetWindowPos function: const WINAPI: std.builtin.CallingConvention = if (@import("builtin").cpu.arch == .x86) .Stdcall else .C; extern fn SetWindowPos( hWnd: c.HWND hWnd…