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Bilal
Bilal

Reputation: 13

How can we get full path of a .exe file, in a c program?

Here is the code I am working on. What changes are required for the program to automatically detect its exe file path and save it in a string variable?

#include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>
#include<process.h>
#include<dir.h>

void main()
{

    int check;
    char dirname[150], u_name[30];

    printf("Enter a username:");
    scanf("%s",&u_name);

    strcpy(dirname,"C:/Users/Bilal/Desktop/");
    strcat(dirname,u_name);
    check = mkdir(dirname);

    if (!check)
    printf("Directory created\n");

    else
    {
        printf("Unable to create directory\n");
        exit(1);
    } 

    printf("\nPress any key to exit program");
    getch();
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 141

Answers (1)

kocica
kocica

Reputation: 6467

GetModuleFileName will tell you where exe is running from.

#include <windows.h>
...
WCHAR dirname[1024];
GetModuleFileNameW(NULL, dirname, 1024);

Convert wchar_t to char using wcstombs.

strcat(dirname, whatever); // Or strncat
mkdir(dirname);

Upvotes: 2

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