Re: Does a DLL know its own path?

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From: Nick B. Cassos
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 15:47

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On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 16:57:55 +0200, "nicolasr"
<nicolasrNOSPAMATSIGNgmx.net> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm writing a pure WinAPI DLL. Is there a way from within the DLL to get at
>the path of the DLL ?
>
>thanks,
>Nick
>

I think, you should start with GetModuleFileName() to obtain the path
of your DLL's process. Armed with this info, you can follow Window's
logic to look first in the process's directory, then the current one,
system, windows, and anything in the PATH environment string. If there
are 2 or more instances of your DLL in several directories then I give
up.

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Nick B. Cassos

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