Finding myGame.exe path

[I~=Spam]

Is it possible to get the directory a love game that was launched?
unknown/path/to/myGame.exe

I don't think that there is a way but I couldn't find a post about it and thought it was worth asking

[Robin]

arg[1]

[I~=Spam]

Thanks works great!

[Ubermann]

arg[1]

That would work if the game is launched using the .love file.


But for a standalone binary, arg[1] is nil unless the player sets launch parameters like "./mygame -a"

[Robin]

Is that right? I thought that would give the path to the executable in that case. (Not inclined to test it right now.)

[I~=Spam]

arg[1]

That would work if the game is launched using the .love file.

Sorry I only tested it with a .love file and figured that it would work with .exe's as well Opps!

But for a standalone binary, arg[1] is nil unless the player sets launch parameters like "./mygame -a"

Using the following code in a .bat file it works (it isn't a great work around but it does the job.) (I will have to make equivalents for macs and linux)

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for /F %%x in ('CHDIR') do set path=%%x
testGame.exe "%path%/testGame.exe"

Now there are two files (launch.bat and testGame.exe) but I'd like to combine everything into one big happy .exe by using the following in command prompt:

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copy /b launch.bat+love.exe+testGame.love testGame.exe

which of course doesn't work.

Is it possible to add all of the files together into one .exe?

[I~=Spam]

I found another solution! This one doesn't use a .bat file. I used the LoveFS lib to make executing os commands a little easier. Here's the code in main.lua

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require 'lovefs/lovefs'

function love.load()
	fs = lovefs()
        if not(arg[1]) then
	        if love._os == 'Windows' then
		        a, b = fs:run('cd')
		        b = b..'\\'
	        else
		        a, b = fs:run('pwd')
		        b = b..'/'
	        end
        else
                b = arg[1]
        end
end

function love.draw()
	love.graphics.print( b..'test.exe', 0, 0)
end

After some testing I found that it won't work if the game is launched from the terminal
or of course if the file was renamed.