[PD-dev] library finding it's own path?

Martin Peach martin.peach at sympatico.ca
Thu Apr 23 15:08:21 CEST 2009


zmoelnig at iem.at wrote:
> hi all.
> 
> does anybody know of a nice way for an external object/library to find 
> out it's own path (at the time of loading the external)?
> 
> my current solution involves way too many Pd-internals (like accessing 
> the c_externdir member of the t_class structure)
> 

Have a look at the source for [mrpeach/which] in svn. I took some code 
from Pd internals and it calls some more, but maybe not _way_ too much.

What's missing from it is a way to know if a name refers to an internal.

Martin





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