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

["Wesley Smith" <wesley.hoke@...>]

So that works for windows, but is there a POSIX or another OS agnostic
method for doing this?

wes

On 10/7/06, Nick Gammon <nick@gammon.com.au> wrote:
> 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