PackageCompiler.jl `create_app` use path of the binary

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I made an app using PackageCompiler.create_app and it works really nice.

My app requires a database which is a file, and I would like to use the file in the same folder as the binary…

However when I run

~/bin/MyApp

The pwd() becomes the path from which I called MyApp. Is there a way for the app to know where the bin folder is?

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Did you have a look at the @__DIR__ macro? (Expand to a string with the absolute path to the directory of the file containing the macrocall.)

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It prints it where the source code was, not where the resultant binary is.

4

I see. Maybe just use a relative path, then?

EDIT: Sorry, too early, that’s where the pwd() issue comes in, I get it.