Easily fix the shortcomings of referencing files locally to your pkg'd executable
First install the pkg-file-resolver using the npm command line tool
npm i -g pkg-file-resolver
Then, to use it in your code require it as follows:
const { __resolve } = require("pkg-file-resolver")
console.log(__resolve)Within the pkg system the files that are compiled are adding into a snapshot system where they run like they're in a separate drive. This complicates things when you try to reference files local to the exe, as the node program thinks it's in an entirely different drive.
| node | pkg | |
|---|---|---|
| __filename | /dir/file.js | /snapshot/dir/file.js |
| __dirname | /dir | /snapshot/dir |
| process.cwd() | /dir as of the cmd | /Users/user |
| process.execPath | /node.exe | /dir/file.exe |
| process.argv[0] | /node.exe | /dir/file.exe |
| process.argv[1] | /dir/file.js | /snapshot/dir/file.js |
| require.main.filename | /dir/file.js | /snapshot/dir/file.js |
| __resolve | /dir | /dir |
pkg-file-resolver stands to help jump over this obstacle of just getting the local directory