Question

I need to access some files with fstream in my C++ app on Windows. Those files are all located in subfolders of the folder where my exe file is located.

• What is the easiest and more important: safest way to get the path to the folder of the current executable?

Answer 1

Use GetModuleFileName to find out where your exe is running from.

WCHAR path[MAX_PATH];
GetModuleFileNameW(NULL, path, MAX_PATH);

Then strip the exe name from path.