Lazarus
Using the Lazarus IDE => Options => Topic started by: verstapp on April 12, 2017, 10:35:32 am
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i remember in delphi [6, win] there was an option [default?] that all generated files for a project ended up in the directory where the source [.pas, .dfm, .dpr, etc] files lived. this was lovely for me.
lazarus doesn't appear to have this option, or if it does i haven't found it yet. ide options has a 'directory for building test projects' path, but changing it doesn't appear to change anything.
i also found project/options/paths but changing the unit output path didn't change where the executable ended up [in C:\Lazarus].
any ideas?
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If you clear the "Unit output directory" in the project's Compiler Options / Paths the compiler writes everything into the folder of the corresponding source file. I would not recommend this, however, because it makes it unnecessarily hard to remove compiler-generated files from your own code files and you cannot separate platform files.
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thanks, wp. i tried it anyway, .exe still ends up in c:\lazarus.
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The exe is put into the folder specified in "Target file name". Normally this is only the project name, without extension and without prepended path - the latter makes the binary go into the folder of the lpi file.
Is there an path in front of the project name in your case? Or maybe ($LazarusDir)?
Remarks
- I often put here bin/$(TargetCPU)-$(TargetOS)/projectname to separate platforms.
- And: don't add ".exe" to the Target file name, it will be added automatically in Windows, but not on Linux where the extension is not used.
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Target file name is
project1
lazarus is still putting .exe, .compiled, .ico, .lpi, .lpr, .lps, .o, .obj and .res in c:\lazarus.
but then having closed/restarted lazarus a couple of times, and then created a new project in another folder, all of a sudden everything was saved to the [correct] directory, project2. sometimes 'have you tried turning it off and then on again?' does work. thanks again, wp.
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Strange. This should not happen... Please come back if, by chance, you might find a way how to reproduce this false behavior.
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@wp,
afaik (and in case still present then) sometimes project settings changes are not (noted and) saved in project options.
Using resources in project options is also such a option that does not always get noticed by IDE. You can fix that by changing one of the check-boxes in your project options and set it directly back again, then especially do a save project. Note that the asterisk that indicates a change in the project must be present before saving, otherwise the changes will not be saved in project options.
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hi,
a configuration path where every executable should be created would be nice to have though.
especially now with SSDs the target executable could be rendered on a RamDisk drive instead on wearing the SSD.