id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
12869	Getting the path of the current executable	vervaeck.sam@…	Beman Dawes	"I couldn't find any other ticket relating to this issue, so I'm asking here. I think it would be ''really'' useful if Boost's FileSystem included a method for getting the path of the current executable in a cross-platform way. I needed this kind of functionality myself just now because I needed to find some files relative to the executable's dir, and I think that a lot of projects can benefit from it. As goes without saying, a solution for this problem in a mature well-tested library beats a ''quickfix'' in one of my own projects.

As has been noted in several threads on StackOverflow, using `argv[0]` to derive the current path has its flaws on many platforms (including mine). A more robust solution would be to use e.g. `GetModuleFileName` on Windows and `/proc/self/exe/` on Linux. The code can I think be fairly easily copied from [http://stackoverflow.com/a/34109000/1173521 this StackOverflow answer], which, according to the author, has been tested on various platforms.

Regards,
Sam"	Feature Requests	new	To Be Determined	filesystem	Boost Development Trunk	Optimization