Win32 Perl has always had GetModulePathName()
At least my cursory grep didn't find that function in the perl source

Sorry, my transcription error (s/Path/File/): 

perllib.c:171:    GetModuleFileName(NULL, szModuleName, sizeof(szModul
+eName));
win32.c:135:    GetModuleFileName((HMODULE)((w32_perldll_handle == INV
+ALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
win32.c:136:                            ? GetModuleHandle(NULL)

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It looks like it's just getting the name from whatever the compiler sets up as argv[0].

No, Win32 Perl has never figured out $^X based on argv[0] (except before it was released). The function called is os2_execna­me(aTHX) (yes, Win32 is consider OS/2-ish).

- tye        

In reply to Re^3: Poll: Is your $^X an absolute path? (argv[0]) by tye
in thread Poll: Is your $^X an absolute path? by xdg

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