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Haxe (hxcpp) – Path relative to executable path

Say I have following file structure of my application:

Data/prefs.ini
executable.exe

How can I open prefs.ini providing relative path to it from executable.exe is always the same (known at compile time)? Or how can I get absolute path of executable.exe? I need it to work on Linux, Mac and Windows.

Solution

  • There is an exact haxe API for that: Sys.executablePath() (doc)

    To get a path relative to it:

    import haxe.io.Path;
class Test {
    static public function relToExe(path:String):String {
        return Path.join([Path.directory(Sys.executablePath()), path]);
    }
    static function main() {
        trace(relToExe("something"));
    }
}