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How can I find the user’s home directory in a cross platform manner in C++? i.e. /home/user in Linux, C:\Users\user\ on Windows Vista, C:\Documents And Settings\user\ on Windows XP, and whatever it is that Macs use. (I think it’s /User/user)
Basically, what I’m looking for is a C++ way of doing this (example in python)
os.path.expanduser("~")
I don’t think it’s possible to completely hide the Windows/Unix divide with this one (unless, maybe, Boost has something).
The most portable way would have to be
getenv("HOME")on Unix and concatenating the results ofgetenv("HOMEDRIVE")andgetenv("HOMEPATH")on Windows.