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Posted: **Wed Aug 23, 2017 12:26 pm**

I Have an old project that used the statfs call in the past, but im unable to get it to compile with purebasic 5.61 beta 1. Using the pbsoimporter as mentioned here http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... lit=statfs neither worked in the amd64 nor the x86 version of linux 5.61 beta 1

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StatFSBuffer$ = Space(200)

  Res = statfs_(Path$, @StatFSBuffer$)
  
  If (Res = 0)
    Blocks.i = PeekL(@StatFSBuffer$ + 16)
  endif

PB 5.61 beta 1 seems unable to resolve the api call and just aborts compilation with

[13:11:57] [COMPILER] Line 480: statfs_() is not a function, array, list, map or macro.

Is it my mistake or a 5.61 beta problem?

ps: installing a previous major version now to see if that works

Posted: **Wed Aug 23, 2017 2:49 pm**

You shouldn't use statfs anymore because it's deprecated and OS-specific. Instead of statfs you should use statvfs because it's POSIX compliant and handles large file sizes better.

You have to use the following ImportC statement (and also define the structure of statvfs before this import) for PureBasic to resolve the API call:

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ImportC ""
  statvfs(Path.P-UTF8, *Buffer.statvfs)
EndImport

You may take a look into remi_meier's example or uwekel's example (which is derived from remi_meier's one and reports a volume's space, used space and free space).

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