Re: Application path

[Vivien Malerba <vmalerba gmail com>]

On 18 January 2011 06:18, John Emmas <johne53 tiscali co uk> wrote:

> Thanks guys.  In fact, I only need this for the purpose of calculating a
> path that's relative to the location of the installed program.  It's of less
> importance on Linux because apps tend to be installed using the same path on
> everyone's system so generally, one can make an intelligent guess.  However,
> under Windows that's not necessarily the case.  I eventually solved it using
> g_win32_get_package_installation_directory_of_module(NULL) - but it didn't
> occur to me to check what happens if the app got started from a shortcut.
>  I'll check that later today.  I'm not entirely sure what to do under OS-X
> though.  From my limited knowledge of Macs I believe the situation is
> similar to Linux - i.e. the user gets no choice over where to install an
> app, so the path will typically be identical for most users.  Is that a
> reasonable assumption?
For Libgda, I use some code initially produced by AutoPackage to enable
binary relocation on Linux, Windows and MacOSX, see the code in
http://git.gnome.org/browse/libgda/tree/libgda/binreloc.

Regards,

Vivien