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I am currently writing an external where I need to find out the absolute path of the .mxe instance itself.

I tried using "class_getpath(t_class *x)" from ext_obex.h, but this always returns 0.

Anybody got any ideas? Help would be much appreciated...

how-to-get-absolute-path-of-current-mxe

I know this is an old question, but I have just used this lovely function in my 

t_symbol* py_locate_path_to_external(t_py* x)
{
    char external_path[MAX_PATH_CHARS];
    char external_name[MAX_PATH_CHARS];
    
    short path_id = class_getpath(py_class);
    sprintf(external_name, "%s.mxo", py_class->c_sym->s_name);
    path_toabsolutesystempath(path_id, external_name, external_path);
    post("path_id: %d, external_name: %s, external_path: %s", 
        path_id, external_name, external_path);
    return gensym(external_path);
}

In your case, you would change `py_class` to `your_class` t_class * obj and also, since you are using windows, change "%s.mxo" to "%s.mxe".

I know this is an old question, but I have just used this lovely function in my project :

In your case, you would change `py_class` to `your_class` t_class * obj and also, since you are using windows,  change "%s.mxo" to "%s.mxe".

How to get absolute path of current .mxe