al_set_exe_name(3)

💖 al_set_exe_name(3) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Library Functions Manual — this one is short, iconic, and lowkey a little niche, but we’re gonna slay it ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

al_set_exe_name — Allegro 5 API 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

void al_set_exe_name(char const *path)

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So this function overrides the executable name that al_get_standard_path(3) uses for these two paths, periodt:

• ALLEGRO_EXENAME_PATH
• ALLEGRO_RESOURCES_PATH

One situation where changing this is genuinely useful is if you use the Python wrapper 🐍. Without this override, Allegro would by default think that the system’s Python executable is the current executable — but you can set it to the .py file being executed instead. Main character energy, fr fr 💖

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⭐ SINCE ⭐

5.0.6, 5.1.0 — yes bestie, both of those 💫

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• al_get_standard_path(3)

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Signing off from the Allegro reference manual, page al_set_exe_name(3) — the footer didn’t give me a date, so no invented date, just vibes and accurate facts 💅✨🫶