Linux scripts incorrectly treat relative paths

[renatoathaydes]

I've just downloaded the Sciter SDK and tried to run Quark on Ubuntu. It doesn't work because the relative paths are not treated correctly.

Here's your current Linux script:

../../bin.lnx/x64/scapp ../../quark/index.htm

This only works if I run it from sdk_path/bin.quark/linux.

To make it work from anywhere, it should look like this:

#!/bin/bash

DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" >/dev/null 2>&1 && pwd )"

"$DIR/../../bin.lnx/x64/scapp" "$DIR/../../quark/index.htm"

It's also necessary to chmod scapp (which is not mentioned in the tutorial at http://quark.sciter.com/quark-application-samples/hello-world/) but now it works.

One hint: if you pack the application in a tar ball, file permissions should be preserved, so users wouldn't need to chmod it (but I assume you need to do it from Linux/MacOS, not Windows).

[c-smile]

Thanks.

I've mentioned chmod in the note in "3. Run Quark from Sciter SDK"

And your bash script does not work on Linux/Mint here. I am getting this (never seen anything like that before):

[renatoathaydes]

It should work fine on Mint, I used to use Mint before, it's just a derivate of Ubuntu. The script I posted, in fact, should work in any Linux distro I know of, it's just bash!

[renatoathaydes]

See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59895/how-to-get-the-source-directory-of-a-bash-script-from-within-the-script-itself

As people mention there, this is much simpler, but should also work in the majority of cases:

DIR=$(dirname "$0")