"turn-key" application improvements

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Lets make Leadwerks more independent from where it is run. Today you can not start your game from any other place than the dir where the executable is. This does not work:

/home/user/mygame/mygame.debug
./mygame/mygame.debug

 

Add the following to the Code::Blocks project in the template files:

-Wl,-rpath=\\$$$ORIGIN

 

To make the resource files load from any place add this right before app->Start() in main.cpp of the template files:

#ifdef __linux__
FileSystem::SetDir(FileSystem::ExtractDir(argv[0]));
#else
HMODULE hModule = GetModuleHandle(NULL);
if (hModule != NULL) {
 char exePth[MAX_PATH];
 GetModuleFileName(hModule, exePth, MAX_PATH);
 FileSystem::SetDir(FileSystem::ExtractDir(exePth));
}
#endif

 

This is based on this discussion:

http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/topic/10628-shared-lib-libsteam-apiso-loading-question/