How do I get the directory that a program is running from?

Question

Is there a platform-agnostic and filesystem-agnostic method to obtain the full path of the directory from where a program is running using C/C++? Not to be confused with the

Answer 1

Filesystem TS is now a standard ( and supported by gcc 5.3+ and clang 3.9+ ), so you can use current_path() function from it:

std::string path = std::experimental::filesystem::current_path();

In gcc (5.3+) to include Filesystem you need to use:

#include 

and link your code with -lstdc++fs flag.

If you want to use Filesystem with Microsoft Visual Studio, then read this.