diff -r 6ba4c0f3c9d1 -r 850be6a6885c librazor/util.c
--- a/librazor/util.c	Tue Jul 05 09:40:01 2016 +0100
+++ b/librazor/util.c	Fri Jun 08 18:02:49 2018 +0100
@@ -364,3 +364,68 @@
 }
 
 #endif	/* MSWIN_API */
+
+/*
+ * Returns an absolute path (ie., not relative to the current directory on the
+ * default, or any other, disk). Note that the absolute path may still have
+ * "." or ".." path segments present (ie., this is not equivalent to realpath).
+ */
+char *razor_abspath(const char *path)
+{
+#ifdef MSWIN_API
+
+	int n;
+	wchar_t *wpath, *wabspath;
+	char *abspath;
+
+	wpath = razor_utf8_to_utf16(path, -1);
+
+	n = GetFullPathNameW(wpath, 0, NULL, NULL);
+	if (!n) {
+		free(wpath);
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
+	wabspath = malloc(n * sizeof(sizeof(wchar_t)));
+	if (!GetFullPathNameW(wpath, n, wabspath, NULL)) {
+		free(wabspath);
+		free(wpath);
+		return NULL;
+	}
+	free(wpath);
+
+	abspath = razor_utf16_to_utf8(wabspath, n - 1);
+	free(wabspath);
+
+	return abspath;
+
+#else	/* MSWIN_API */
+
+	int pathlen, len;
+	char *cwd, *abspath;
+
+	if (*path == '/')
+		abspath = strdup(path);
+	else {
+		pathlen = strlen(path);
+		for (len = 32;; len *= 2) {
+			abspath = malloc(pathlen + 1 + len);
+			if (getcwd(abspath, len))
+				break;
+			if (errno != ERANGE) {
+				free(abspath);
+				return NULL;
+			}
+			free(abspath);
+		}
+		len = strlen(abspath);
+		if (abspath[len - 1] != '/')
+			abspath[len++] = '/';
+		memcpy(abspath + len, path, pathlen + 1);
+		abspath = realloc(abspath, len + pathlen + 1);
+	}
+
+	return abspath;
+
+#endif
+}