How to get Current Working Directory

Archive: How to get Current Working Directory

Senser
28th June 2006 21:13 UTC

How to get Current Working Directory
Hi,

I was wondering how to get the current working directory from within a NSIS installer.

I know about the GetExePath function and $EXEDir variable, but they only refer to the location of the NSIS installer. If the NSIS installer is not in the current working directory this won't work.

Anyone?

Comperio
29th June 2006 01:26 UTC

$OUTDIR should be what you're looking for.

Senser
29th June 2006 06:22 UTC

Originally posted by Comperio
$OUTDIR should be what you're looking for.

Not exactly. What I need is a way to determine from which directory the installer is started. For example: the installer myinstaller.exe is located in c:\temp.

Someone startes myinstaller.exe from d:\data by typing c:\temp\myinstaller.exe. What I need is a var that contains 'd:\data'. $OUTDIR contains c:\temp, $EXEDir contains c:\temp and GetExePath also contains c:\temp.

Maybe a call to the function GetCurrentDirectoryA from kernel32 will work, but I cannot seem to figure out how to set this up..

Instructor
29th June 2006 08:36 UTC

Name "Output"
OutFile "Output.exe"

Section
        System::Call "kernel32::GetCurrentDirectory(i ${NSIS_MAX_STRLEN}, t .r0)"
        MessageBox MB_OK "$0"
SectionEnd

Senser
29th June 2006 09:34 UTC

Originally posted by Instructor

Name "Output"
OutFile "Output.exe"

Section
        System::Call "kernel32::GetCurrentDirectory(i ${NSIS_MAX_STRLEN}, t .r0)"
        MessageBox MB_OK "$0"
SectionEnd

That's it! Thanks! :)