Relative path in game?

[Gianfranco Berardi <gberardi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I just found that if I try to run the binary of my game from a different 
directory, it can't find the files it is trying to load.

Now, my code is trying to open files as "../resources/fileName".

So, I figure I must be wrong in my code or my setup, but I am not sure 
how to handle this problem.  How do most games handle this issue?

I tried to change it to use "resources/fileName" and copying the binary 
up one directory, but just as I suspected, it treats it as relative to 
my current working directory.

How do I get my game to work with files relative to itself rather than 
the user?  This may seem like a simple problem, but other than creating 
a shell script that has "cd gameDirectory; runGameApp", I'm not sure 
what else to do, and the shell script seems kind of hacky.

Thank you in advance for your time,
Gianfranco

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