Auto Search for BGI in Turbo C

[Jody Hagins]

In article <1991Mar17.162020.6858 at news.iastate.edu>, tabu6 at CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (Adam Goldberg) writes:
|> In article <65841 at eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, haozhou at acsu.buffalo.edu (Hao Zhou) writes:
|> >I wrote an application program using Turbo C graphics package. The
|> >only problem I have is that I have to keep the BGI driver in the
|> >current directory otherwise the program will say the BGI driver is not
|> >found. 
|> >
|> >My question is how do I tell my program to search for the BGI driver
|> >in a path specified somehow if the BGI driver is not present in the
|> >current directory?
|> >
|> 
|> It is possible to link the BGI driver in with the executable code (EXE file), 
|> by:
|>   o  Using the BGIOBJ utility to create an OBJ verion of the BGI driver
|>   o  LINKing the OBJ BGI driver with your code OBJ file
|>   o  Doing either a 'registerbgidriver()' or 'registerfarbgidriver()' function
|>      call before the 'initgraph()' call.
|> 
|> (Consult your manual for further info--though I got this from the Waite Group's
|> Turbo C++ Bible -- these functions work in TC2.0 as well).




I use an environment variable BGI_DIR.  If it's set, I use it.  Otherwise,
I use the current directory.


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