Listing directory contents using C and Windows

Question

I'm looking to list and store the contents of a directory in a struct using C on Windows.

I'm not necessarily looking for anyone to write out the code I'm looking for, rather point me in the right direction when it comes to which library I should be looking at.

I've been Googling for a few hours now and all I'm finding is C#, C++ solutions so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Just like everyone else said (with FindFirstFile, FindNextFile and FindClose)... but with recursion!

bool ListDirectoryContents(const char *sDir) {     WIN32_FIND_DATA fdFile;     HANDLE hFind = NULL;      char sPath[2048];      //Specify a file mask. *.* = We want everything!     sprintf(sPath, "%s\\*.*", sDir);      if((hFind = FindFirstFile(sPath, &fdFile)) == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)     {         printf("Path not found: [%s]\n", sDir);         return false;     }      do     {         //Find first file will always return "."         //    and ".." as the first two directories.         if(strcmp(fdFile.cFileName, ".") != 0                 && strcmp(fdFile.cFileName, "..") != 0)         {             //Build up our file path using the passed in             //  [sDir] and the file/foldername we just found:             sprintf(sPath, "%s\\%s", sDir, fdFile.cFileName);              //Is the entity a File or Folder?             if(fdFile.dwFileAttributes &FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY)             {                 printf("Directory: %s\n", sPath);                 ListDirectoryContents(sPath); //Recursion, I love it!             }             else{                 printf("File: %s\n", sPath);             }         }     }     while(FindNextFile(hFind, &fdFile)); //Find the next file.      FindClose(hFind); //Always, Always, clean things up!      return true; }  ListDirectoryContents("C:\\Windows\\"); 

And now its UNICODE counterpart:

bool ListDirectoryContents(const wchar_t *sDir) {      WIN32_FIND_DATA fdFile;      HANDLE hFind = NULL;       wchar_t sPath[2048];       //Specify a file mask. *.* = We want everything!      wsprintf(sPath, L"%s\\*.*", sDir);       if((hFind = FindFirstFile(sPath, &fdFile)) == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)      {          wprintf(L"Path not found: [%s]\n", sDir);          return false;      }       do     {          //Find first file will always return "."         //    and ".." as the first two directories.          if(wcscmp(fdFile.cFileName, L".") != 0                 && wcscmp(fdFile.cFileName, L"..") != 0)          {              //Build up our file path using the passed in              //  [sDir] and the file/foldername we just found:              wsprintf(sPath, L"%s\\%s", sDir, fdFile.cFileName);               //Is the entity a File or Folder?              if(fdFile.dwFileAttributes &FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY)              {                  wprintf(L"Directory: %s\n", sPath);                  ListDirectoryContents(sPath); //Recursion, I love it!              }              else{                  wprintf(L"File: %s\n", sPath);              }          }     }      while(FindNextFile(hFind, &fdFile)); //Find the next file.       FindClose(hFind); //Always, Always, clean things up!       return true;  }   ListDirectoryContents(L"C:\\Windows\\");