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

SDL2 (https://www.libsdl.org/) library has two functions implemented across a wide spectrum of platforms:

• SDL_GetBasePath
• SDL_GetPrefPath

So if you don't want to reinvent the wheel... sadly, it means including the entire library, although it's got a quite permissive license and one could also just copy the code. Besides, it provides a lot of other cross-platform functionality.