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Code Organisation - compiler Q,

Started by jeffB Jun 5, 2003 at 4:12 AM 2 replies 600+ views

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Jun 5, 2003 at 4:12 AM

I have a bunch of common cpp and h files that I presently keep in just 1 folder. I''d now like to organize them so that files with similar functionality are kept in seperate subfolders of the root folder. Unfortuantely with MSVC6 I have had to add each subfolder to the compilers directory settings - I was hoping that the compiler would search all subfolders of a given folder too so that I wouldn''t have to do this. How do you arrange your common files so that your projects are kept well oraganized and so that it is quick & easy to set up the same project in different compilers?

CWizard

Jun 5, 2003 at 4:21 AM

Name them properly and keep them in a single directory.

Estor

Jun 5, 2003 at 4:24 AM

Source control, can be useful too

[edited by - Estor on June 5, 2003 5:24:47 AM]

JohnBolton

Jun 5, 2003 at 4:45 AM

I assume you are talking about header files, since you have to explicitly add source files no matter how they are organized...

My view is that adding include directories to the compiler settings is a bad idea. The right thing to do is add the folder name to the #include directive (#include "bar.h" ==> #include "foo/bar.h").

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