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.

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

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
>