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Asked: 2026-05-27T15:36:59+00:00

I’m trying to get the current executable’s file path without the executable name at

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

I’m doing:

uint32_t size = sizeof(path);

if (_NSGetExecutablePath(path, &size) == 0) {


}

else {

    printf("buffer too small; need size %u\n", size);
}



char* program_name = dirname(path); // To remove executable name from the path

It works the path output is: /Users/Me/Desktop/TNT/build/Debug/

But when i was going to add some gui by using SDL library, the output path was wrong:

/Users/Me/Desktop/TNT/build/Debug/TNT.app/

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  1. Editorial Team

    It’s not wrong, it’s right.

    From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_bundle#Mac_OS_X_application_bundles:

    Application bundles are directory hierarchies, with the top-level
    directory having a name that ends with a .app extension.

    TNT.app/ is the working directory (and the top-level directory of the application bundle) on Mac OSX. You can confirm this if you enter a command shell and cd to the directory.

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