Muti-platform file-system navigation.
lazarus / 23-Operating Systems

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Человек_Борща · 2015-01-13 10:31

Greetings!

I start writing application for several operating systems. The big
problem for me, is file-system navigation, and I/O operations.

Can anybody explaing, how to use pathes in linux OS?
e.g. I doing DeleteFile('D:\File.txt') or
TStrings.LoadFromFile('D:File.txt') in windows.

Other:
In linux where install my application?
How I can get path where application binary are located? e.g.
ExtractFilePath(ParamStr(0))
Where the temporary folder?

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Bart · 2015-01-13 11:02

Start at this wiki page

Bart

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Человек_Борща · 2015-01-13 11:33

Thanks.

How I can add some article to wiki, or translate some article?

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mig-31 · 2015-01-13 14:53

For Linux standard program installation path
1) for binary file /usr/bin
2) libraries (dll/so) /usr/lib or usr/lib64
3) application settings for user /home/<user
name>/<.applicationname>(application name really starts with dot)

You can obtain paths by using FreePascal(Lazarus) functions, how told
to you @Bard

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Leledumbo · 2015-01-13 16:23

Quote from: mig-31 on January 13, 2015, 03:53:16 pm2) libraries
(dll/so) /usr/lib or usr/lib64
Recently /usr/lib32 also exists on 64-bit systems, where /usr/lib
already contains 64-bit libraries, /usr/lib64 is simply a symlink to
/usr/lib on such a system.