Hey Lionel,
On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 5:44 PM, Lionel Elie Mamane <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Does anybody have an idea how we can determine at runtime where the > LibreOffice installation root is? > > The difficulty we are having with firebird is that is needs to find a > "security3.fdb" file. So we put it in instdir/share/ and we want > firebird to look there. > > But now, when running from the instdir in the source dir, that will be > something like > > /home/username/sources/libreoffice/.../instdir/share > > but after a "real" installation the exact same binary will be in > something like > > /opt/libreoffice5.3/share > /usr/lib/libreoffice > /usr/local/lib/libreoffice > > So we need to determine at _runtime_ where LibreOffice is being run > from... I see that the "soffice" script has a "sd_prog" variable; if > we just export it, we could use that, something like the > concatenation of getenv("sd_prog") and "../share/". > > Is it OK if we do that? Will it work on other platforms than Unixy > systems? Is there already another mechanism to achieve the same result > in LibreOffice that I don't know about? > > There is already a way to do exactly thatand it is actually already used in the old firebird code. Have a look at connectivity/source/drivers/firebird/Driver.cxx:90 In general rtl::Bootstrap::expandMacros provides access to most of the directories that are of interest to LibreOffice. Regards, Markus
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