[SDL] runtime data path

[David MacCormack]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, matt hull wrote:

> i am trying to figure out how to code media paths in sdl.  on each system it 
> would be installed into a different folder, and a user should be able to run 
> the application with or  without installing.  i have spent a few hours 
> googling and nothing seems to come up.  so i picked an open source project 
> and looked at it.  i found that supertux handles it quit well.  it tries the 
> current working dir then the install dir.  this seems to work well except 
> that the code is not clean, it has ifdef in it for windows or unix.
>

fnkdat is another option.  I think that you'll find that most 
solutions to this problem will have #ifdefs for various platforms because 
handling this varies greatly from platform to platform.
http://www.maccormack.net/~djm/fnkdat/

Dave

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David MacCormack
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