diff -r 000000000000 -r e4d67989cc36 glib/glibbackend/src/getProgPath.cpp
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/glib/glibbackend/src/getProgPath.cpp	Tue Feb 02 02:01:42 2010 +0200
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+/*
+* Copyright (c) 2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
+* All rights reserved.
+* This component and the accompanying materials are made available
+* under the terms of "Eclipse Public License v1.0"
+* which accompanies this distribution, and is available
+* at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".
+*
+* Initial Contributors:
+* Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+*
+* Contributors:
+*
+* Description: 
+*
+*/
+
+
+#include "glibbackend.h"
+#include <e32std.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+extern "C" EXPORT_C char *getProgPath(char *progName)
+{
+	TText16 iName16[KMaxFileName];
+	char *progPath;
+	int pathLength;
+	RProcess iProcess;
+	char replacePath[KMaxFileName];
+	
+	/* replace / with // */
+	strcpy(replacePath,progName);
+	char *temp = strchr(replacePath,'/');
+	while (temp)
+	{
+		*temp = '\\';
+		temp = strchr(replacePath,'/');
+	} // end while
+	
+	//convert narrow chars to wide chars
+	mbstowcs((wchar_t *)iName16, replacePath, strlen(replacePath)+1);
+	
+	//create TDesC to pass to RProcess.Create()
+	TBuf16<KMaxFileName> iCmdName16(iName16);
+	_LIT(KArg,"");
+	
+	// Check if Create if successful. If not successful
+	// the executable by that name does not exits. Hence,
+	// return NULL. 
+	if(iProcess.Create(iCmdName16,KArg))
+		progPath = NULL;
+	else
+	{
+		// If successful, convert from TDesC to narrow chars and 
+		// return.
+		TFileName fileName = iProcess.FileName();
+		iProcess.Close();
+		
+		pathLength = fileName.Length();
+		
+		progPath = (char *)malloc(pathLength + 1);
+		
+		if(progPath == NULL)
+			return NULL;
+		
+		for(int i=0;i < pathLength;i++)
+		{
+			progPath[i] = fileName[i];
+		} // end for 
+		
+		progPath[pathLength] = '\0';
+	
+	} // end if
+	return progPath;
+}
+