How to get name of my application (project)

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Mon Aug 5 09:49:47 UTC 2019


On 2019-08-03 17:58, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

> Also, the first element in the array passed to main is the name of the
> executable.

No, what's passed to "main" is the path to however the application was 
invoked, not the executable. If you invoke it as "./foo" it will pass 
"./foo" to the "main" function. If you invoke it as "/usr/local/bin/foo" 
it will pass "/usr/local/bin/foo" to the "main" function. That's at 
least how it works on macOS.

"thisExePath" will give you the full path to the executable regardless 
how if it was invoked. It will resolve symlinks as well.

So it depends on what's needed. "name of application" is a bit diffuse 
statement.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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