_lread problem, loading bitmap

ok i''m reading a book on programming games. I copyed part of a function into my code, now I got this code to compile without error, but then I changed the "pointer to a bitmap struct" to a "global struct" of the same type. now when I compile I get [cannot convert ''BITMAPFILEHEADER'' to ''void*'' for argument ''2''to] reffering to this function call: _lread(file_handle, bitmap.bitmapfileheader,sizeof(BITMAPFILEHEADER)); when bitmap whas a pointer it read bitmap->bitmapfile... and so on. from VC++ Docs I know that I should be useing a win32 function, but I wanted to stay as close to the original code untill I got it to work.

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