There is no cross platform way that I know. For Linux: pass "/proc/self/exe" to std::filesystem::canonical or readlink . Windows: pass NULL as...

The boost::dll::program_location function is one of the best cross platform methods of getting the path of the running executable that I know of....

This way uses boost + argv. You mentioned this may not be cross platform because it may or may not include the executable name. Well the followin...

C++17, windows, unicode, using filesystem new api: #include "..\Project.h" #include <filesystem> using namespace std; using namespace filesystem;...

I'm not sure about Linux, but try this for Windows: #include <windows.h> #include <iostream> using namespace std ; int main() { char ownPth[...

This is what I ended up with The header file looks like this: #pragma once #include <string> namespace MyPaths { std::string getExecutablePath...

For windows: GetModuleFileName - returns the exe path + exe filename To remove filename PathRemoveFileSpec

QT provides this with OS abstraction as QCoreApplication::applicationDirPath()

If using C++17 one can do the following to get the path to the executable. #include <filesystem> std::filesystem::path getExecutablePath() { r...