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Re: How to get standard paths?!?

From David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c++
Subject Re: How to get standard paths?!?
Date 2019-08-17 15:13 +0200
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <qj8uh7$3if$3@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 17/08/2019 13:58, Szyk Cech wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I am looking the best way to get system paths in Linux and Windows. 
> Off-course the best will be portable way. Like this:
> https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qstandardpaths.html
> But I don't want to use Qt. I want to write most of my app in pure C++.
> 
> I am looking for following paths:
> std::wstring gSettingsDir();
> std::wstring gLocalDataDir();
> std::wstring gAppDataDir();
> std::wstring gLogDir();
> std::wstring gTempDir();
> 
> Can you give me some hints how to get them in Linux and Windows?!?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance and best regards!
> Szyk Cech

If you can use C++17, consider the support in <filesystem> :
<https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/header/filesystem>

I haven't tried it myself, but maybe it has what you need.

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How to get standard paths?!? Szyk Cech <szykcech@spoko.pl> - 2019-08-17 13:58 +0200
  Re: How to get standard paths?!? "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2019-08-17 14:02 +0200
    Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-17 14:05 +0200
      Re: How to get standard paths?!? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-17 15:11 +0200
        Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-17 15:59 +0200
          Re: How to get standard paths?!? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-17 16:20 +0200
            Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-17 16:28 +0200
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                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bo Persson <bo@bo-persson.se> - 2019-08-17 21:07 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-17 21:41 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-17 17:40 +0200
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                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-17 18:00 +0200
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                Re: How to get standard paths?!? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-17 20:20 +0200
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                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bo Persson <bo@bo-persson.se> - 2019-08-18 20:33 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-08-18 20:51 +0100
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                Re: How to get standard paths?!? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-19 08:52 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2019-08-19 09:32 +0200
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                Re: How to get standard paths?!? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-17 18:00 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-17 18:06 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-17 20:24 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-18 08:49 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-18 11:46 +0200
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                Re: How to get standard paths?!? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-18 12:07 +0200
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                Re: How to get standard paths?!? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-18 14:48 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-18 15:51 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-18 16:43 +0200
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                Re: How to get standard paths?!? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-17 20:41 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-08-17 16:46 -0700
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                Re: How to get standard paths?!? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-18 12:24 +0200
                Re: How to get standard paths?!? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-08-18 13:07 +0200
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