Re: Controlling include & lib paths with macros

From:
David Wilkinson <no-reply@effisols.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.ide_general
Date:
Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:38:54 -0400
Message-ID:
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Ole Nielsby wrote:

Hi...

I have a project that uses a framework (wxWidgets).

I installed and compiled wxWidgets in C:\wxWidgets-2.8.4

In all the projects of my own solution, I entered

    C:\wxWidgets-2.8.4\include
    ...and more...

as additional include directives. In the main project, I entered

    C:\wxWidgets-2.8.4\lib\vc_lib

as additional library path.

Can I define a macro or environment like
WXWIDGETS_INSTALL_PATH=C:\wxWidgets-2.8.4
somewhere and use a macro in the entries in the project settings,
so that I can switch between, say verison 2.8.4 and 2.8.5 by
changing the macro?

(I'm not really bothered by having to switch the paths manually
when a new wxWidgets version is released - what bothers me
is I'd like my project to be out-of-the-box compilable without
requiring wxWidgets in a specific place. People might have
projects depending on different versions of wxWidgets or
other frameworks...)

I'm using VC Express.


Ole:

I always put paths like this into the VC Directories for the IDE. But
this means that all your solutions use the same version. [Of course it
is easy enough to put multiple versions there and change the order, but
it a hassle to keep doing it if you really want different projects to
use different versions.]

--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP

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