• Andrej Mitrovic (14/14) Jan 09 2012 I need to get the name of the executable but without using a string[]
• Joshua Reusch (3/17) Jan 09 2012 They are stored in Runtime.args (you must import core.runtime).
• Andrej Mitrovic (2/21) Jan 09 2012

Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> writes:

I need to get the name of the executable but without using a string[]
from main. I'm wrapping a 3rd party library that requires me to
initialize it by calling an extern function to pass the executable
name.

However I don't want to force the user to pass args from main when
constructing a class, so I was wondering if there's a cross-platform
way of getting the arguments which I could use in a shared static this
module constructor inside of my wrapper library?

Druntime probably has the arguments stored somewhere upon app entry
(before calling my main function). Is there a way to extract them?
Otherwise I'll have to use OS-specific APIs, but I'd rather avoid
those. Worst-case-scenario I'll just have to make passing args[] from
main a requirement of the library. It's not a big issue, but slightly
annoying.

Joshua Reusch <yoschi arkandos.de> writes:

Am 09.01.2012 18:00, schrieb Andrej Mitrovic:
 I need to get the name of the executable but without using a string[]
 from main. I'm wrapping a 3rd party library that requires me to
 initialize it by calling an extern function to pass the executable
 name.

 However I don't want to force the user to pass args from main when
 constructing a class, so I was wondering if there's a cross-platform
 way of getting the arguments which I could use in a shared static this
 module constructor inside of my wrapper library?

 Druntime probably has the arguments stored somewhere upon app entry
 (before calling my main function). Is there a way to extract them?
 Otherwise I'll have to use OS-specific APIs, but I'd rather avoid
 those. Worst-case-scenario I'll just have to make passing args[] from
 main a requirement of the library. It's not a big issue, but slightly
 annoying.

They are stored in Runtime.args (you must import core.runtime).

Joshua

Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> writes:

Sweeet, thanks Joshua!

On 1/9/12, Joshua Reusch <yoschi arkandos.de> wrote:
 Am 09.01.2012 18:00, schrieb Andrej Mitrovic:
 I need to get the name of the executable but without using a string[]
 from main. I'm wrapping a 3rd party library that requires me to
 initialize it by calling an extern function to pass the executable
 name.

 However I don't want to force the user to pass args from main when
 constructing a class, so I was wondering if there's a cross-platform
 way of getting the arguments which I could use in a shared static this
 module constructor inside of my wrapper library?

 Druntime probably has the arguments stored somewhere upon app entry
 (before calling my main function). Is there a way to extract them?
 Otherwise I'll have to use OS-specific APIs, but I'd rather avoid
 those. Worst-case-scenario I'll just have to make passing args[] from
 main a requirement of the library. It's not a big issue, but slightly
 annoying.

 They are stored in Runtime.args (you must import core.runtime).

 Joshua