Just my two cents. You can find the current application's directory in C/C++ with cross-platform interfaces by using this code.
void getExecutablePath(char ** path, unsigned int * pathLength)
{
// Early exit when invalid out-parameters are passed
if (!checkStringOutParameter(path, pathLength))
{
return;
}
#if defined SYSTEM_LINUX
// Preallocate PATH_MAX (e.g., 4096) characters and hope the executable path isn't longer (including null byte)
char exePath[PATH_MAX];
// Return written bytes, indicating if memory was sufficient
int len = readlink("/proc/self/exe", exePath, PATH_MAX);
if (len <= 0 || len == PATH_MAX) // memory not sufficient or general error occured
{
invalidateStringOutParameter(path, pathLength);
return;
}
// Copy contents to caller, create caller ownership
copyToStringOutParameter(exePath, len, path, pathLength);
#elif defined SYSTEM_WINDOWS
// Preallocate MAX_PATH (e.g., 4095) characters and hope the executable path isn't longer (including null byte)
char exePath[MAX_PATH];
// Return written bytes, indicating if memory was sufficient
unsigned int len = GetModuleFileNameA(GetModuleHandleA(0x0), exePath, MAX_PATH);
if (len == 0) // memory not sufficient or general error occured
{
invalidateStringOutParameter(path, pathLength);
return;
}
// Copy contents to caller, create caller ownership
copyToStringOutParameter(exePath, len, path, pathLength);
#elif defined SYSTEM_SOLARIS
// Preallocate PATH_MAX (e.g., 4096) characters and hope the executable path isn't longer (including null byte)
char exePath[PATH_MAX];
// Convert executable path to canonical path, return null pointer on error
if (realpath(getexecname(), exePath) == 0x0)
{
invalidateStringOutParameter(path, pathLength);
return;
}
// Copy contents to caller, create caller ownership
unsigned int len = strlen(exePath);
copyToStringOutParameter(exePath, len, path, pathLength);
#elif defined SYSTEM_DARWIN
// Preallocate PATH_MAX (e.g., 4096) characters and hope the executable path isn't longer (including null byte)
char exePath[PATH_MAX];
unsigned int len = (unsigned int)PATH_MAX;
// Obtain executable path to canonical path, return zero on success
if (_NSGetExecutablePath(exePath, &len) == 0)
{
// Convert executable path to canonical path, return null pointer on error
char * realPath = realpath(exePath, 0x0);
if (realPath == 0x0)
{
invalidateStringOutParameter(path, pathLength);
return;
}
// Copy contents to caller, create caller ownership
unsigned int len = strlen(realPath);
copyToStringOutParameter(realPath, len, path, pathLength);
free(realPath);
}
else // len is initialized with the required number of bytes (including zero byte)
{
char * intermediatePath = (char *)malloc(sizeof(char) * len);
// Convert executable path to canonical path, return null pointer on error
if (_NSGetExecutablePath(intermediatePath, &len) != 0)
{
free(intermediatePath);
invalidateStringOutParameter(path, pathLength);
return;
}
char * realPath = realpath(intermediatePath, 0x0);
free(intermediatePath);
// Check if conversion to canonical path succeeded
if (realPath == 0x0)
{
invalidateStringOutParameter(path, pathLength);
return;
}
// Copy contents to caller, create caller ownership
unsigned int len = strlen(realPath);
copyToStringOutParameter(realPath, len, path, pathLength);
free(realPath);
}
#elif defined SYSTEM_FREEBSD
// Preallocate characters and hope the executable path isn't longer (including null byte)
char exePath[2048];
unsigned int len = 2048;
int mib[] = { CTL_KERN, KERN_PROC, KERN_PROC_PATHNAME, -1 };
// Obtain executable path by syscall
if (sysctl(mib, 4, exePath, &len, 0x0, 0) != 0)
{
invalidateStringOutParameter(path, pathLength);
return;
}
// Copy contents to caller, create caller ownership
copyToStringOutParameter(exePath, len, path, pathLength);
#else
// If no OS could be detected ... degrade gracefully
invalidateStringOutParameter(path, pathLength);
#endif
}
You can take a look in detail here.
