diff -r 000000000000 -r 2c88fd553e5d bl/path.c
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/bl/path.c	Mon Feb 06 23:55:27 2012 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+#ifdef WIN32
+#include <windows.h>
+#endif
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <glib.h>
+#include <bl/bl.h>
+
+/*
+ * Return an absolute path to <path>.
+ * Note that this function makes no attempt to return a unique path, or
+ * to remove "." or ".." entries. It simply returns a path which will
+ * be unaffected by subsequent calls to chdir().
+ */
+char *path_to_absolute(const char *path)
+{
+#ifdef WIN32
+    long len;
+    gunichar2 *path2;
+    gunichar2 *abs2;
+    char *abs;
+    path2=g_utf8_to_utf16(path,-1,NULL,NULL,NULL);
+    if (!path2)
+	return NULL;
+    len=GetFullPathNameW(path2,0,NULL,NULL);	/* len includes nul */
+    if (!len)
+    {
+	g_free(path2);
+	return NULL;
+    }
+    abs2=g_new(gunichar2,len);
+    len=GetFullPathNameW(path2,len,abs2,NULL);	/* len excludes nul */
+    g_free(path2);
+    if (!len)
+    {
+	g_free(abs2);
+	return NULL;
+    }
+    abs=g_utf16_to_utf8(abs2,len,NULL,NULL,NULL);
+    g_free(abs2);
+    return abs;
+#else
+    char *s,*abs;
+    if (*path=='/')
+	abs=g_strdup(path);
+    else
+    {
+	s=g_get_current_dir();
+	abs=g_build_filename(s,path,NULL);
+	g_free(s);
+    }
+    return abs;
+#endif
+}