How to get the executable directory path?

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Hello

Is it possible to get the directory containing the current executable (the compiled application)?

I know os.get_current_directory() returns the current working directory path but this is not guaranteed to be the directory that contains the executing file

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You should be able to join os.get_current_directory() with os.args[0].

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Perfect, that works. Thank you

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Glad to help :+1:
Btw, I didn’t jump to this conclusion immediately, but googled how to do it in C. Often, solutions from C also apply in Odin so I do that a lot.

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Oh, and maybe check if os.path[0] is an absolute path as well. In that case, you don’t need the current dir at all.

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There are edge cases where that does not work, the WIP replacement of core:os, core:os/os2 has os2.get_executable_path and os2.get_executable_directory for this purpose.

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