Relative Paths and merge modules

[andrejzr]

Hi,

There have been several topics about relative paths, but I haven't seen any related to the merge modules.

By default, all merge modules need to be in the folder, where the project is. IA IDE copies it there, when you add a merge module from another location.

Since I have multiple projects, that use same merge modules, this means that there would be a number of same merge modules on the build directory tree. Not very nice.

It gets more complicated - my automatic build procedure is also building the merge modules prior to starting the IA build. With this approach, I would need to take care that the modules get copied to each IA project folder, before buidling IA setup.

Using IDE, it is not possible to have a relative location of a merge module (like "..\\..\\MergeModules\\xxx.msm"). But, when I editied MPR file with a text editor, and changed the merge module to include relative path prefix, it just works!

This is cool, as it gives me a chance to workout the above problem. Is there possibility to update the IA IDE in a way, that it would be possible to enter relative path of the merge module in the project. I am afraid that the relative path information, entered in the MPR file directly, will get lost when editing the MPR using IDE.

Related question - is it possible to do the same thing with support files?


Regards
Andrej

[MichaelNesmith]

Hi Andrej,

Glad to hear it works when directly editing the project file - but please be aware that these changes are made at your own risk. The IDE currently supports no path specifications only.

[andrejzr]

Any chance that this will be improved in the future?

[MichaelNesmith]

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