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!

All I wa

Answer 1

This is what I ended up with

The header file looks like this:

#pragma once

#include 
namespace MyPaths {

  std::string getExecutablePath();
  std::string getExecutableDir();
  std::string mergePaths(std::string pathA, std::string pathB);
  bool checkIfFileExists (const std::string& filePath);

}

Implementation

#if defined(_WIN32)
    #include 
    #include 
    #include  

    #define access _access_s
#endif

#ifdef __APPLE__
    #include 
    #include 
    #include 
    #include 
#endif

#ifdef __linux__
    #include 
    #include 
    #include 

    #if defined(__sun)
        #define PROC_SELF_EXE "/proc/self/path/a.out"
    #else
        #define PROC_SELF_EXE "/proc/self/exe"
    #endif

#endif

namespace MyPaths {

#if defined(_WIN32)

std::string getExecutablePath() {
   char rawPathName[MAX_PATH];
   GetModuleFileNameA(NULL, rawPathName, MAX_PATH);
   return std::string(rawPathName);
}

std::string getExecutableDir() {
    std::string executablePath = getExecutablePath();
    char* exePath = new char[executablePath.length()];
    strcpy(exePath, executablePath.c_str());
    PathRemoveFileSpecA(exePath);
    std::string directory = std::string(exePath);
    delete[] exePath;
    return directory;
}

std::string mergePaths(std::string pathA, std::string pathB) {
  char combined[MAX_PATH];
  PathCombineA(combined, pathA.c_str(), pathB.c_str());
  std::string mergedPath(combined);
  return mergedPath;
}

#endif

#ifdef __linux__

std::string getExecutablePath() {
   char rawPathName[PATH_MAX];
   realpath(PROC_SELF_EXE, rawPathName);
   return  std::string(rawPathName);
}

std::string getExecutableDir() {
    std::string executablePath = getExecutablePath();
    char *executablePathStr = new char[executablePath.length() + 1];
    strcpy(executablePathStr, executablePath.c_str());
    char* executableDir = dirname(executablePathStr);
    delete [] executablePathStr;
    return std::string(executableDir);
}

std::string mergePaths(std::string pathA, std::string pathB) {
  return pathA+"/"+pathB;
}

#endif

#ifdef __APPLE__
    std::string getExecutablePath() {
        char rawPathName[PATH_MAX];
        char realPathName[PATH_MAX];
        uint32_t rawPathSize = (uint32_t)sizeof(rawPathName);

        if(!_NSGetExecutablePath(rawPathName, &rawPathSize)) {
            realpath(rawPathName, realPathName);
        }
        return  std::string(realPathName);
    }

    std::string getExecutableDir() {
        std::string executablePath = getExecutablePath();
        char *executablePathStr = new char[executablePath.length() + 1];
        strcpy(executablePathStr, executablePath.c_str());
        char* executableDir = dirname(executablePathStr);
        delete [] executablePathStr;
        return std::string(executableDir);
    }

    std::string mergePaths(std::string pathA, std::string pathB) {
        return pathA+"/"+pathB;
    }
#endif


bool checkIfFileExists (const std::string& filePath) {
   return access( filePath.c_str(), 0 ) == 0;
}

}