Self-reproducing program

I am questioning my solution to the last exercise in Accelerated C++:

Write a self-reproducing program. Such a program is one that does no input, and that, when run, writes a copy of its own source text on the standard output stream.

My solution:

using std::string;
using std::cout;
using std::endl;
using std::ifstream;
using std::getline;

void selfReproduce16_1()
{
    ifstream thisFile("C:\\Users\\Kevin\\Documents\\NetBeansProjects\\Accelerated_C++_Exercises\\Chapter_16.cpp", ifstream::in);

    string curLine;

    bool foundHeader = false;

    while(getline(thisFile, curLine))
    {
        if(!curLine.compare("void selfReproduce16_1()") || foundHeader)
        {
            foundHeader = true;
            cout << curLine << endl;
        }

    }

}

This only prints out the source text of the solution (this function). Is this the solution that they had in mind?

I would like a dynamic solution that does not require hard-coding the location of the source file. However, I am not aware of a way to get the location of a source file automatically during runtime.

Another point related to that is the inclusion of "included" files, and (when encountering a function call), automatically obtaining the location of the source file that the function is stored in. To me, this would be a true "self-reproducing" program.

Is this possible in C++? If so, how?

A program that prints itself is called Quine.

I think your solution wouldn't be considered valid: quines usually aren't allowed to read files (nor to get any other kind of input). It's possible to writ a Quine C++ program, here you could find many quine implementations in several languages.