How to extract the source filename without path and suffix at compile time?

Question

Using both gcc with -std=c11 and g++ with -std=c++14.

E.g. for a file named src/dir/Hello.cxx it should expand to something like e.g.:

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Answer 1

extract the base filename at compile time with no preprocessor tricks and no external scripts? c++14? no problem sir.

#include 
#include 

using namespace std;

namespace detail {
    constexpr bool is_path_sep(char c) {
        return c == '/' || c == '\\';
    }

    constexpr const char* strip_path(const char* path)
    {
        auto lastname = path;
        for (auto p = path ; *p ; ++p) {
            if (is_path_sep(*p) && *(p+1)) lastname = p+1;
        }
        return lastname;
    }

    struct basename_impl
    {
        constexpr basename_impl(const char* begin, const char* end)
        : _begin(begin), _end(end)
        {}

        void write(std::ostream& os) const {
            os.write(_begin, _end - _begin);
        }

        std::string as_string() const {
            return std::string(_begin, _end);
        }

        const char* const _begin;
        const char* const _end;
    };

    inline std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os, const basename_impl& bi) {
        bi.write(os);
        return os;
    }

    inline std::string to_string(const basename_impl& bi) {
        return bi.as_string();
    }

    constexpr const char* last_dot_of(const char* p) {
        const char* last_dot = nullptr;
        for ( ; *p ; ++p) {
            if (*p == '.')
                last_dot = p;
        }
        return last_dot ? last_dot : p;
    }
}

// the filename with extension but no path
constexpr auto filename = detail::strip_path(__FILE__);
constexpr auto basename = detail::basename_impl(filename, detail::last_dot_of(filename));

auto main() -> int
{
    cout << filename << endl;
    cout << basename << endl;

    cout << to_string(basename) << endl;

    return 0;
}