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

As others mentioned, argv[0] is quite a nice solution, provided that the platform actually passes the executable path, which is surely not less probable than the OS being Windows (where WinAPI can help find the executable path). If you want to strip the string to only include the path to the directory where the executable resides, then using that path to find other application files (like game assets if your program is a game) is perfectly fine, since opening files is relative to the working directory, or, if provided, the root.