Program directory is not system directory. So it doesn't have CSIDL. Program directory is the folder where executable file is located. I certainly remember that there is a way to get it without, for example, setting it in registry during install... On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:31:19PM -0500, Rahul Kapoor wrote:

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So, is there a way to get an application directory path under Windows? I remember that there is a way to do this using WinAPI, but how to do this Haskell?

The System.Directory module has some methods to get specific directory names in an OS agnostic manner.

The closest method that matches what you want is "getAppUserDataDirectory" which uses the windows API function SHGetFolderPath to get the folder for well known name. IIRC Windows supports a notion of "Constant special item"'s and if getAppUserDataDirectory does not do what you want you can call SHGetFolderPath using the CSIDL you are interested in. The code to do so should be identical to the source for "getAppUserDataDirectory"

CSIDL'a are listed here [1]

Links. [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb762494%28VS.85%29.a

Thanks, but my program will be distributed in self-made installer (on windows), though I'm using cabal and the sources are GPL-licensed. Just for users' convenience :) On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 09:42:45AM -0800, Thomas DuBuisson wrote:

Other responses have been great but if you are cabalizing you might also be interested in:

http://neilmitchell.blogspot.com/2008/02/adding-data-files-using-cabal.html

Cheers, Thomas

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Matveev Vladimir wrote:

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Hi, I'm writing cross-platform application in Haskell which should be running under Windows and Linux. Under Linux configuration is stored in the /etc directory, and under Windows configuration is meant to be in the application directory. So, is there a way to get an application directory path under Windows? I remember that there is a way to do this using WinAPI, but how to do this Haskell? _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Am Mittwoch, den 27.01.2010, 21:19 +0300 schrieb Vladimir Matveev:

Oh yeah, it seems I found it. Solution is to use getModuleFileName and getModuleHandle functions from System.Win32.DLL. Thanks for attention :)

You can also use the (portable) package 'directory' from Hackage (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/directory).

I wrote several times that I want determine application directory under Windows only. Unix version will store its config in predefined location, in /etc. Anyway, one not subscribed man wrote me about special library to solve this problem - http://hackage.haskell.org/package/executable-path On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:16:25AM -0800, Scott A. Waterman wrote:

'FindBin' is also useful. http://hackage.haskell.org/package/FindBin

While System.Directory is quite useful, it doesn't contain a function to obtain the directory in which the running program lives. You can get the current (working) directory (e.g. unix's 'getpwd'), and you can try to find an executable by searching the $PATH, but you can't find the program you are currently running.

--ts

On Jan 27, 2010, at 9:06 AM, Matveev Vladimir wrote:

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Hi, I'm writing cross-platform application in Haskell which should be running under Windows and Linux. Under Linux configuration is stored in the /etc directory, and under Windows configuration is meant to be in the application directory. So, is there a way to get an application directory path under Windows? I remember that there is a way to do this using WinAPI, but how to do this Haskell? _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe