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

On Windows the simplest way is to use the _get_pgmptr function in stdlib.h to get a pointer to a string which represents the absolute path to the executable, including the executables name.

char* path;
_get_pgmptr(&path);
printf(path); // Example output: C:/Projects/Hello/World.exe