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Pretty much what the topic asks.
I have a struct that contains 3 elements that are Pointers that point to wchar_t strings (there's also another element that's a pointer to a C string which is not a problem at all) and I'm having a hell of a time trying to retrieve them and/or convert them to a regular LCB String type. I worked out a hack to do it on macOS that seems to work quite well, but it's a total fail on Windows. I've tried tapping into various <builtin> functions found in Livecode's foundation.h header with not much success. In fact, I seem to be getting further from a solution. It's very frustrating because these are just name strings, important for humans, but not actually important to the functionality of the library I'm wrapping (HIDAPI).

possibly pasting some... would help you reach faster some ..my 1 cents 1/2

OK, I think I figured out the problem tapping into this <builtin> function Seems like this actually does work fine on Windows, but was crashing the engine on macOS?
I'm Not 100% sure, but now I have a split if the OS is windows it uses the above, else any other OS it uses my getWCharString (which is a bit hacky, and works by pulling ANSI characters out of the character array and looking for a bunch of nulls in a row for string termination). Bottom line is it's working on both macOS & Windows now.

Here is the LCB Code if anyone is interested: https://github.com/PaulMcClernan/LCB_HI ... HIDAPI.lcb