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

This method works for both Windows and Linux:

#include 
#include 
#ifdef _WIN32
#include 
#define GetCurrentDir _getcwd
#elif __linux__
#include 
#define GetCurrentDir getcwd
#endif

std::string GetCurrentWorkingDir() 
{
    char buff[FILENAME_MAX];
    GetCurrentDir(buff, FILENAME_MAX);
    std::string current_working_dir(buff);
    return current_working_dir;
}