Sorry to bother with kinda dumb question, but I was trying to load some “experimental stuff” from a file (a prototype of a homemade engine), but I got caught in action.
The question is: How to work with paths in Linux? I remember that in Windows I used to code something similar to Vb’s App.path, and working it out, but on Linux, I could only load my file writting in the source line the whole path (/home/mateus/dev/pocket2d/bg.bmp), a very non-portable way to do things…
Help!
Thanks in advance.
Take a look at
$ man setenv
You will probably have to do something like
#include <stdlib.h>
…
setenv( “PATH”, “/my/new/path”, 1 );
But if you’re executable is
/foo/exec
and you want to load
/foo/bg.bmp
you should be able to do something like
#include
…
ifstream fin(“bg.bmp”);
No, don’t add paths to the PATH env variable! that’s bad bad bad!
Just use the path from the main() arguments and load everything from pathvar + “/data/blah.png”
Or something like that, it’s easy.
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