VS Arduino - Having .cpp/.h files outside the project directory

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Gilles Plante Full Member Offline Posts: 156 Location: Qu�bec, Canada Joined: Oct 31^st, 2013	Having .cpp/.h files outside the project directory Jun 2^nd, 2015 at 8:44pm	Print Post
	Hi, my question may look similar to the 'Can not put .cpp and .h files into a subdirectory' post. Where I now work, we are two person developing. Thing is some of the source files are used by us two, being kind of libraries. Arduino's IDE works with libraries, but these libraries are local to each installation, so we would need to have each our own copy. (Please take an Aspirin, this will tough ) Is there some way we could have external libraries that we could both incorporates in our project ? They would not be right in the project's folder, but in a shared location. I understand that it may be far from Arduino. At this time we use AtmelStudio 6.2 and Arduino 1.0.6. Thanks Gilles Plante


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12191 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Having .cpp/.h files outside the project directory Reply #1 - Jun 2^nd, 2015 at 8:57pm	Print Post
	Why not set your sketch book folder to a shared location and map the drive if that's easier L:\Arduino\SharedSketchBook then libraries would be in L:\Arduino\SharedSketchBook\Libraries, or share the \arduinoide folder. For personal libraries put them in ArduinoIde\Libraries but keep a copy of them or always use the portable .zip for install just in case the Arduino ide installer deletes them. ?
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Gilles Plante Full Member Offline Posts: 156 Location: Qu�bec, Canada Joined: Oct 31^st, 2013	Re: Having .cpp/.h files outside the project directory Reply #2 - Jun 2^nd, 2015 at 9:05pm	Print Post
	Tim, not bad suggestions you have. To make it a little more complicated, we have a repository on a NAS drive for the projects, but work locally and use TurtoiseHg as the versioning system. We commit locally and a few times a week we merge on the repository. Having a shared location for the IDE is not a bad idea... things is the NAS is painfully slow, but may be having the IDE there would not be so bad. Thanks for your suggestions Gilles Plante


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12191 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Having .cpp/.h files outside the project directory Reply #3 - Jun 2^nd, 2015 at 9:15pm	Print Post
	Interested to hear how it goes. You can have local tool chains by deleting the hardware\arduino\avr folder and using boards manager to install an avr core. In that case the avr stuff will be located in users\name\appdata\roaming\arduino15 If you set the ide location using winreg "hkcu\software\visual micro\locations\arduino 16x.." you don't even need the arduino.exe. Thus only libraries will be read from the shared drive. Vm does not use the arduino.exe other than in the ide locations dialog to validate the path. You can probably just have a folder with arduino\libraries, arduino\libs\version.txt, arduino\hardware\platform.keys.rewrite.txt and Visual Micro will think its an ArduinoIde install. Not tested it but seems logical.
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Gilles Plante Full Member Offline Posts: 156 Location: Qu�bec, Canada Joined: Oct 31^st, 2013	Re: Having .cpp/.h files outside the project directory Reply #4 - Jun 2^nd, 2015 at 9:24pm	Print Post
	Tim, you may have missed a point (so easy with IDE's naming): we use 1.0.6, not 1.6.x. We stayed away of 1.6.x because it changed a lot from version to version. Would there be any benefits for us in moving to 1.6.x ? Thanks Gilles Plante


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12191 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Having .cpp/.h files outside the project directory Reply #5 - Jun 2^nd, 2015 at 9:29pm	Print Post
	Hi Giles, I see okay that makes sense. No other than what I described and a few updates there is little or no benefit but I didn't say that


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