Question

I want to get the current executable’s file path without the executable name at the end.

I’m using:

char path[1024];
uint32_t size = sizeof(path);
if (_NSGetExecutablePath(path, &size) == 0)
    printf("executable path is %s\n", path);
else
    printf("buffer too small; need size %u\n", size);

It works, but this adds the executable name at the end.

Answer 1

dirname(path);
should return path without executable after you acquire path with, that is on Unix systems, for windows you can do some strcpy/strcat magic.

For dirname you need to include #include <libgen.h>…