Merlin’s Delphi Forge

To found out the name of the Windows directory it’s best to use the Windows API GetSystemDirectory() function.

Here’s the Delphi implementation:

uses Windows;
...
function GetSystemDir: string;
const
(* The length of the directory buffer. Usually 64 or even 16 is enough 
**
** Must be DWORD type.
*)
  dwLength: DWORD = 255;
var
  psSysDir: PChar;
begin
  GetMem(psSysDir, dwLength);
  GetSystemDirectory(psSysDir, dwLength);
  Result := string(psSysDir);
  FreeMem(psSysDir, dwLength);
end;

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