Within my project I am planning to extend DCMTK with an additional feature to burn text into an dicom image. The prototype is almost ready and I am planning to put the source online. However, I am still struggeling with some code-cosmetics

I want to add a font (opensource font Lato-Regular.ttf) to my dcmtk-src/dcmdata/data directory. Within the code of my dcmtk-commandline-app, I need to set the path to the font. So far I only managed to set the path hardcoded (/Users/myName/development/dcmtk-src/dcmdata/data/Lato-Regular.ttf)
is there a way how to make dcmtk aware of the file so that it can be included without hardcoding the path? My app is more or less based on pdf2dcm.cc
edit:__
The Fontfile is already added to CMakeLists.txt, Makefile and Makefile.in in src/dcmdata/data
edit2:__
The Fontfile is installed into the install directory of install/share/dcmtk
How can this path be accessed from the app? is there a Macro or #define which stores the installpath/share/dcmtk pathinformation?
cheers
mozart