Get path of executable

Question

I know this question has been asked before but I still haven\'t seen a satisfactory answer, or a definitive \"no, this cannot be done\", so I\'ll ask again!

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Answer 1

In case you need to handle unicode paths for Windows:

#include 
#include 

int wmain(int argc, wchar_t * argv[])
{
    HMODULE this_process_handle = GetModuleHandle(NULL);
    wchar_t this_process_path[MAX_PATH];

    GetModuleFileNameW(NULL, this_process_path, sizeof(this_process_path));

    std::wcout << "Unicode path of this app: " << this_process_path << std::endl;

    return 0;
}