Command line arguments parsing is different in Windows XP vs Windows 10

Question

Consider the command line argument:

D:\work\test.exe -a -p

My C++ application's main() receives the arguments as follows:

1. Windows 10

   argc = 3  
   
   argv[0] = "D:\work\test.exe"
   
   argv[1] = "-a" 
   
   argv[2] = "-p"
   

2. Windows XP

   argv = 3    
   
   argv[0] = "test.exe"
   
   argv[1] = "-a"   
   
   argv[2] = "-p"
   

The argument argv[0] is being parsed differently. My application needs them to be same.
Is there any way to get the entire path in Windows XP as well?
I have tried both main and winmain and the result is the same.

Answer 1

You can determine the full path of the application's .exe file like this:

WCHAR *path = new WCHAR [32768]; // allow for long path names on Win 10
GetModuleFileNameW (NULL, path, 32768);
...
delete [] path;

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