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[Dev-C++] How to get application directory?

[Josep S. <sub...@ar...>]

Hi,

Do you know how to get the directory where your c++ application is running
in?
This should be a simple question for most experienced c++ programmers!

Thanks,

Josep

P.S. I have been able to run EMBEDDED MYSQL with Dev-C++ successfully. Now
it links
the libmysqld.a library + the programm successfully uses embedded mysql...
If anyone
is interested in running embedded mysql too, please let me know!

Re: [Dev-C++] How to get application directory?

[Per W. <pw...@ia...>]

getcwd() or _getcwd().

/Per W

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Josep Subirana wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Do you know how to get the directory where your c++ application is running
> in?
> This should be a simple question for most experienced c++ programmers!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josep
>
> P.S. I have been able to run EMBEDDED MYSQL with Dev-C++ successfully. Now
> it links
> the libmysqld.a library + the programm successfully uses embedded mysql...
> If anyone
> is interested in running embedded mysql too, please let me know!
>
>
>
>
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Re: [Dev-C++] How to get application directory?

[Kevin W. <ke...@me...>]

getcwd()  returns the current working directory, which is not necessarily 
the same as the directory in which the application resides.

At 08:10 09/03/04, Per Westermark wrote:
>getcwd() or _getcwd().
>
>/Per W
>
>On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Josep Subirana wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Do you know how to get the directory where your c++ application is running
> > in?
> > This should be a simple question for most experienced c++ programmers!
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Josep
> >

Re: [Dev-C++] How to get application directory?

[Per W. <pw...@ia...>]

The question was which directory the application is running in - not where
the application binary is stored.

/Per W

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Kevin Wood wrote:

> getcwd()  returns the current working directory, which is not necessarily
> the same as the directory in which the application resides.
>
> At 08:10 09/03/04, Per Westermark wrote:
> >getcwd() or _getcwd().
> >
> >/Per W
> >
> >On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Josep Subirana wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Do you know how to get the directory where your c++ application is running
> > > in?
> > > This should be a simple question for most experienced c++ programmers!
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Josep
> > >
>
>
>
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RE: [Dev-C++] How to get application directory?

[P.D. v. Z. <pd...@xs...>]

Is it by any chance possible to retrieve the directory where the binary is
stored as well?
I've managed to do this using the Win32 API, by getting the filename of the
running module, and stripping the module name off, but I'd like to be able
to do the same under Linux (I kind of need it, since my application needs to
load some files that are in the same directory as the binary, and if the
current working directory is not the directory the binary's stored in, it
won't find those files, and my application will scream bloody murder) :)

Sorry for jumping onto somebody else's question btw.

Regards,


Paul

-----Original Message-----
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To: Kevin Wood
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Subject: Re: [Dev-C++] How to get application directory?

The question was which directory the application is running in - not where
the application binary is stored.

/Per W

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Kevin Wood wrote:

> getcwd()  returns the current working directory, which is not necessarily
> the same as the directory in which the application resides.
>
> At 08:10 09/03/04, Per Westermark wrote:
> >getcwd() or _getcwd().
> >
> >/Per W
> >
> >On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Josep Subirana wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Do you know how to get the directory where your c++ application is
running
> > > in?
> > > This should be a simple question for most experienced c++ programmers!
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Josep
> > >
>
>
>
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Re: [Dev-C++] How to get application directory?

[<or...@vp...>]

Josep Subirana wrote:
> Do you know how to get the directory where your c++ application is runn=
ing
> in?
> This should be a simple question for most experienced c++ programmers!

__argv[0] has the entire path to your application binary.

For example: "C:\Programs\MyProg.exe"

All you need to do, is to strip off "MyProg.exe" (your app name).
I suspect you wish to save config files, eh? :)
(Well, at least that was why I needed to search for a solution a few=20
years ago, and that's what I found).

One last note: I used __argv because if you have a WinMain in you=20
program, then you don't have argv simply. But __argv is always present=20
(as well as __argc), it is global, and has the same contents as argv and=20
argc would (at least in MinGW).

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Greetings,
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