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Posted: **Sat Apr 11, 2009 8:53 am**

Hello Everybody,

I'm wondering on how the current working directory is calculated in OSX.

My executable (a plain unix executable file, not an apple bundle) is placed in the folder:
/Users/dbs/dev/learn/irrlicht/learn1/build/learn1/Debug/

I wrote a simple test case:

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    IFileSystem*     fs     = device->getFileSystem();
    std::cout << "workingdir:" << fs->getWorkingDirectory() << std::endl;
    std::cout << "file:      " << argv[0] << std::endl;
    std::cout << "filedir:   " << fs->getFileDir(argv[0]).c_str() << std::endl;
    std::cout << "absfiledir:" << fs->getAbsolutePath(argv[0]).c_str() << std::endl;
    std::cout << "absfiledir:" << fs->getAbsolutePath(fs->getFileDir(argv[0])).c_str() << std::endl;

and I get the following output:

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workingdir:/Users/dbs/dev/learn/irrlicht/learn1/build
file:      ./learn1
filedir:   .
absfiledir:/Users/dbs/dev/learn/irrlicht/learn1/build/learn1
absfiledir:/Users/dbs/dev/learn/irrlicht/learn1/build

The *really* strange behavior is that the "Debug" folder is always omitted using the standard IFilesystem calls. Is this something wanted?
I tried with several different dir structures (maybe the dir "Debug" was a special name...) but nothing changed.

Any idea on how to set the current working dir to the exact path where the executable is placed?

thanks!! and sorry if I asked a stupid question...
Davide

Posted: **Wed Sep 22, 2010 6:34 pm**

I am having the same problem. I don't do much with osx, but I had someone compile code for a project using osx. The osx built version omits the final directory when calling getWorkingDirectory().

I don't have a lot of details, just that it was built with gcc on osx.

Also, this is with the 1.7 branch of svn

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