Portable way of obtaining current working directory......

[Shaun Heveron]

Hi,

I'm working on a portable ANSI C++ application designed to compile and
execute under Windows and LINUX/UNIX.

Is there a portable way of obtaining the current working directory? Sorry,
if I'm being stupid...

Thanks,

Shaun

 

[Victor Bazarov]

I'm working on a portable ANSI C++ application designed to compile and
execute under Windows and LINUX/UNIX.

Is there a portable way of obtaining the current working directory? Sorry,
if I'm being stupid...

You're not being stupid, you're just being in the wrong newsgroup.
I'd recommend asking in both Windows (comp.os.ms-windows.programmer)
and Linux (comp.os.linux.development.apps) newsgroups. If you care
about UNIX, you'd have to extend your search to the appropriate UNIX
newsgroup too.

The trouble is, C++ doesn't have any way of obtaining "current" or
"working" directory because it doesn't have the concept of 'a directory'.

V

 

[Victor Bazarov]

Lieven wrote:

Victor Bazarov wrote:

Shaun Heveron wrote:
[...]
V

Take a look here:

http://tinf2.vub.ac.be/~dvermeir/software/dv/index.html

And especially this will interest you:

http://tinf2.vub.ac.be/~dvermeir/software/dv/dvutil/html/classDv_1_1Util_1_1Directory.html

Next time you might consider replying directly to the original poster.

 

[Jeff Flinn]

Hi,

I'm working on a portable ANSI C++ application designed to compile and
execute under Windows and LINUX/UNIX.

Is there a portable way of obtaining the current working directory? Sorry,
if I'm being stupid...

See http://www.boost.org/libs/filesystem/doc/index.htm which supports
windows and POSIX file systems in a semi-portable fashion.

Jeff F

 

[Lieven]

You're not being stupid, you're just being in the wrong newsgroup.
I'd recommend asking in both Windows (comp.os.ms-windows.programmer)
and Linux (comp.os.linux.development.apps) newsgroups. If you care
about UNIX, you'd have to extend your search to the appropriate UNIX
newsgroup too.

The trouble is, C++ doesn't have any way of obtaining "current" or
"working" directory because it doesn't have the concept of 'a directory'.

V

Take a look here:

http://tinf2.vub.ac.be/~dvermeir/software/dv/index.html

 

[Lieven]

Take a look here:

http://tinf2.vub.ac.be/~dvermeir/software/dv/index.html

And especially this will interest you:

http://tinf2.vub.ac.be/~dvermeir/software/dv/dvutil/html/classDv_1_1Util_1_1Directory.html

 

[Lieven]

Lieven wrote:

Victor Bazarov wrote:


Shaun Heveron wrote:
[...]
V

Take a look here:

http://tinf2.vub.ac.be/~dvermeir/software/dv/index.html

And especially this will interest you:

http://tinf2.vub.ac.be/~dvermeir/software/dv/dvutil/html/classDv_1_1Util_1_1Directory.html

Next time you might consider replying directly to the original poster.

Sorry for the mistake, pretty new to newsgroups.