diff --git a/.appveyor.yml b/.appveyor.yml
index 8fb6971d09..b31b9d2ae3 100644
--- a/.appveyor.yml
+++ b/.appveyor.yml
@@ -381,11 +381,7 @@ after_test:
       Select-String $trap -Path $files -SimpleMatch | where {
         # V8 took the liberty to produce an absolute path in their ninja
         # output. We can't do much about that, so we just ignore it.
-        $_.Line -notmatch "v8/builtins-generated/bytecodes-builtins-list.h" -and
-        # The absolute path to snapshot_libdeno_test.bin is passed to test_cc
-        # via pre-processor variable. It's absolute because we want to be able
-        # to execute test_cc from both the project root and the build root.
-        $_.Line -notmatch "snapshot_libdeno_test.bin"
+        $_.Line -notmatch "v8/builtins-generated/bytecodes-builtins-list.h"
       } | tee -Variable line_matches
       if ($line_matches) {
         $ctx = $line_matches.Line                                          |
diff --git a/BUILD.gn b/BUILD.gn
index cc9850778e..0399098932 100644
--- a/BUILD.gn
+++ b/BUILD.gn
@@ -197,8 +197,8 @@ v8_executable("test_cc") {
   data = [
     "$target_gen_dir/snapshot_libdeno_test.bin",
   ]
-  snapshot_abs_path = rebase_path(data[0])
-  defines = [ "SNAPSHOT_PATH=\"$snapshot_abs_path\"" ]
+  snapshot_path = rebase_path(data[0], root_build_dir)
+  defines = [ "SNAPSHOT_PATH=\"$snapshot_path\"" ]
   configs = [ ":deno_config" ]
 }
 
diff --git a/libdeno/test.cc b/libdeno/test.cc
index c178d109a4..f48e916b98 100644
--- a/libdeno/test.cc
+++ b/libdeno/test.cc
@@ -5,10 +5,18 @@
 deno_buf snapshot = {nullptr, 0, nullptr, 0};
 
 int main(int argc, char** argv) {
+  // Locate the snapshot.
+  std::string exe_path;
+  if (!deno::ExePath(&exe_path)) {
+    std::cerr << "deno::ExePath() failed" << std::endl;
+    return 1;
+  }
+  std::string snapshot_path = deno::Dirname(exe_path) + SNAPSHOT_PATH;
+
   // Load the snapshot.
   std::string contents;
-  if (!deno::ReadFileToString(SNAPSHOT_PATH, &contents)) {
-    printf("Failed to read file %s\n", SNAPSHOT_PATH);
+  if (!deno::ReadFileToString(snapshot_path.c_str(), &contents)) {
+    std::cerr << "Failed to read snapshot from " << snapshot_path << std::endl;
     return 1;
   }
   snapshot.data_ptr =