qt - Qstring to LPCWSTR

Question

LPCWSTR path;

void WinApiLibrary::StartProcess(QString name)
{
    path = name.utf16();
    CreateProcess(path, NULL, NULL, NULL, FALSE, 0, NULL, NULL, &si, &pi);
}

C:kursovayasmcwinapilibrary.cpp:21: error: invalid conversion from 'const ushort* {aka const short unsigned int*}' to 'LPCWSTR {aka const wchar_t*}' [-fpermissive] path = name.utf16();

This code worked in the Qt 4.8, but now i have Qt 5.2 and this code isn't working. What's wrong with this guy?

Answer 1

I had the same issue (I'm using Qt 5.3), this is how I fixed it:

QString strVariable1;
LPCWSTR strVariable2 = (const wchar_t*) strVariable1.utf16();