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Can't find linked file [message #1776453]

Thu, 16 November 2017 14:37

beny othman

Messages: 2
Registered: November 2017

Junior Member

Hi,
I am new to eclipse and ran into a problem:

I created a project with some .h and .c files in it. As long as all these files are in the project directory everything works fine and I can compile the whole project. But one of these files (a .h file) is from another project and I want to have it linked to that project instead of having a copy in my project directory. So what I did is right click on my project->New->File->Advanced (Link to file in the file System). So far everything looks really good but trying to compile my project results in a fatal error: No such file or directory.

I tried to fix this problem the whole day without success... please help me :-)

g beny

Compiler is gcc mingw

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Re: Can't find linked file [message #1776539 is a reply to message #1776453]

Fri, 17 November 2017 12:45

Jonah Graham

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Registered: June 2014

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If your .h files are somewhere else, you need to add their containing directory to your include search path. This is the -I (upper case i) on the command line and can be set in Project Properties -> C/C++ Build -> Settings -> C(or C++) compiler -> Includes:

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Re: Can't find linked file [message #1776673 is a reply to message #1776539]

Mon, 20 November 2017 08:39

beny othman

Messages: 2
Registered: November 2017

Junior Member

Thank you very much, Jonah.

I just wanted to add some files from that directory. Unfortunately there are files in that directory which have the same name as in my workspace which I don't want to be taken into account. Unfortunately putting the files I want to be linked in to (-include) section does not work, too.
Now I found a workaround by creating a file in my workspace with the same name as in that directory and just put an include and the path of that file. I don't like this solution but it works fine...

thank you, beny

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