Tauri V2 Sidecar wrong working directory

[moritz-baecker-integra]

I start a sidecar at application startup in JS.

      const command = Command.sidecar('binaries/TEST');
     command.spawn()

It works fine if i use the build version or start the app.exe manually, but if i start the dev mode with "tauri dev", the working directory of the sidecar is wrong:
"Process Start Directory: C:\Data\Work\ABC\Frontend\src-tauri"
It should be:
"C:\Data\Work\ABC\Frontend\src-tauri\target\debug"

Is therer a way to correct this behavior? I could not find anything in the documentation.

[FabianLars]

there are SpawnOptions which contains cwd so you can do

const command = Command.sidecar('binaries/TEST', [], { cwd: "path/to/whatever" });

i'm not sure if it accepts relative paths or only absolute ones. In case of the latter it'd be tricky to get the target dir if you don't want to use rust and don't want to hardcode it your system's target path.

[FabianLars]

I have the all the files of the sidecar in src-tauri/binaries. But the started application expects the working directory to be in the actual executable path.
src-tauri is not the expected path for me to have configuration files for the sidecar for example. That should be next to the .exe file. Otherwise i have different behavior based on dev or prod mode.

in case you want to target other platforms in the future. what you're describing here will only work on windows.

Alternatively i would be happy with a path of a sidecar. So i can set the cwd to the same folder as the executable.

there should be a community pr open somewhere that i wanted to look at today-ish

[FabianLars]

okay nevermind, there's none. i could swear someone pinged me for it though 🤔 this is the tracking issue tauri-apps/plugins-workspace#2151 btw. may do it myself then 🤷

[moritz-baecker-integra]

Im a bit confused why this should not work on a different os. once i build the sidecar to work on mac or linux no?

[FabianLars]

the bundle layouts on macos and linux are different and you won't be able to have non binary files next to the sidecar after packaging.

[moritz-baecker-integra]

Then i need to look further into it, because i thought that's what the resources are for. I need to have a .dll or .json in the same folder. Thank you for your help.