Re: loading lua scripts relative to an app's path

[Nick Gammon <nick@...>]

On 07/10/2006, at 7:51 PM, Wesley Smith wrote:

> Is this available?  I still haven't figured out how to do this as
> argv[0] isn't entirely reliable.

Well, it depends on your application. Using argv [0] depends on the  
application being launched as a "console" application.

In my case, the scripting is imbedded into a Windows GUI application,  
and the OS provides GetModuleFileName, which is the full pathname of  
the application that is currently running.

Another string might be the current directory, not necessarily the  
path of the application. I use getcwd for that (actually _getcwd in  
Windows).

Another string might be the path to the script, assuming the host  
application launches a standalone script. In that case, presumably  
the application knows the path to the script file, since it read it  
in, in the first place. Again, this might be different than the above  
two paths.

- Nick