anyone knows if it's possible to set a include-Path which also uses subfolders?
It's a pain if you want to have structured folders and must assign a include path for each subfolder

Regards,

That seems to leave you with whatever mechanisms are available with the tools themselves. I know Keil supports some form of command line include file specification but what you're talking about could be cumbersome to do that way.

Erik M may recommend batch (BAT) files, which are perfectly acceptable but still requiring command line specification. I think there is also a way to set "environment variables" that the tools can query at assemble/ compile time and I've used this method succesfully within batch files before, for the Keil tools though.

I can't speak for SDCC et al. Hope that helps a little.

With a .bat file you can do any selection to a build directory with or without wildcards.

I have projects that grab files from here, files from there and a specific file only from somewhere else, try that with the IDE. My 'conversion' to .bat happened when I were to build 47 different builds from the same group of files and the "IDE answer" was "make 47 project fies". That would be acceptable in a static environment, but making the same change n 47 projects (and rememebering to do it in them all) is not acceptable.

Erik

@Steve:
I know Keil supports some form of command line include file specification but what you're talking about could be cumbersome to do that way.
Yes, it is I've rearranged five projects and collected the common source files, trying to put them in one directory instead of having a copy of each file in each project. The problem I run into was that the projects are not always in the same relative path to the 'common' directories, therefore each project has to use another INCDIR path specification, but...

I think there is also a way to set "environment variables" that the tools can query at assemble/ compile time and I've used this method succesfully within batch files before, for the Keil tools though.
...going deeper into the environment variables might be the solution. I'll give it a try. I remember I've done something similar in my industrial education. Good old text editor programming under DOS with batch files. Shame on me that I've forgotten it, thanks for pointing me to it.

@Erik:
From your description I cannot retrieve how your batch files are working, can you provide a example, please?

Regards,

@echo off
cd ..\bw

del *.lst
del *.c
del *.h
del *.a51
copy c:\aglobal\Schips\cyf200.h >trash
copy c:\aglobal\sdcc.h >trash
copy ..\sw\_WD*.* >trash

REM copy ..\sw\*.h >trash
REM copy ..\sw\*.c >trash
REM copy ..\sw\*.a51 >trash

if "%1" == "L" goto l1
if "%1" == "G" goto g1
rem ***** no type specified assuming L type ******
goto l1
:l1
rem *** LAN VERSION ***
copy ..\sw\LWD*.* _WD*.* >trash
rem >trash
goto common

:g1
rem g
REM copy ..\sw\wdg*.* *.*
dir
goto common

:notyp
type of build (WDver) not specified
goto exit

:common

call Scmp _WDinit
call Scmp _WDuart
call Scmp _WDrecd
call Sasm _WDxdata
call Scmp _WDisr
call Scmp _WDerr
call Scmp _WDmain
c:\tools\SDCC\bin\SDCC --debug _WDmain.rel _WDinit.rel _WDxdata.rel _WDisr.rel _WDuart.rel _WDrecd.rel _WDerr.rel
del *.sym
del *.adb
del *.asm
del *.rel
del *.cdb

:exit

cd ..\mk
@ echo on

here are the called .bats
@echo off
c:\tools\SDCC\bin\SDCC -c --debug %1.c >trash
if ERRORLEVEL 1 goto e1
rem zero
goto exit

:e1
@echo on
rem nonzero
@echo off
:exit

thank you for the bat example. I will go through it.

Regards,

if you use the incdir(..\subfoldername) compiler directive you can have the compiler search through subfolders within your project directory structure.
Thank you for this hint. If I'm correct, INCDIR is always project dependent. I search for a way to specify the paths only once. I haven't tried to override the TOOLS.INI settings and specify multiple paths yet.

Regards,