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I know this probably has nothing to do with the actual code itself, but how do I find out where the directory the user compiled the program in is? I am using kdevelop as my IDE and I am running Mandriva 10.1. Supertux did a nice job of this but I can't figure how they did it.
>> how do I find out where the directory the user compiled the program in is?
so you just want to know how to find the current projects path. or are you looking for where kdevelop was built at.. im not quite clear on what program you are referring to..
if it is the current project then you should have a sidebar with a 'file selector' on it, it should have the path listed in there..
When you compile the program that you've writen, I believe there is some way you can define datadir(the directory of the data source) in the config.h file that the configure script generates. But I am not sure how to do so with kdevelop. Does anybody know how to do this using kdevelop?
you can set configure vars in 'project'->'project options', under the 'configure options' section.. just pass --datadir=DIR as usual..
is this what you are looking for?
This is sort of what I'm looking for however when I did so and ran ./configure then make it came back with the output saying that -fdatadir=DIR is an unrecognized command, but when I looked at the commands that it had executed it had executed the command --datadir=DIR. Do I need to replace the DIR with something?
yes DIR is representing the directory path you want to use..
ex..
--datadir=/your/path/to/the/data-dir/
OK I can see what your saying there but what if someone else on a nother machine is compiling this program. How then do I tell the program to find out where they compiled the program at? If you are wondering what I am talking about visit supertux.berlios.de and go the downloads section and download the source code release version 1.1.3 and compile it then when you execute the game it will say datadir=/where/you/compiled/supertux/at/data. This is what I am trying to achieve.
Mostly, this is achieved by using make and a makefile.
If you actually download that package, and look at the makefile, you should see it get the current directory, and pass this as say a -DHERE=/path/to/here command line option to the compiler.
does the game have a config file.. or does it accept a cmd line arg for datadir? if so just enter in the path for the datadir.. i doubt this was meant to be an option that was setup at compile time.. more than likely you could copy that datadir from the source dir to /usr/local/share (or where ever).. and then change a config file to say
datadir=/usr/local/share/tux/data
imo, hardly a compile time problem..