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Change standard include path

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Change standard include path

Jun 23rd, 2009

Hi everybody, I have a problem in include path. i want to keep my all header file in folder named myInclude and include it like #include<myInclude/header.h>, Is there any possible way to do this, if there is than please tell me the step.
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Re: Change standard include path

Jun 25th, 2009

Use unix profile file

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Re: Change standard include path

Jun 28th, 2009

Hey there,

If you're doing this for C, you can just use quotes instead of the angle brackets, like

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#include "/home/yourdir/myInclude/header.sh"

If you're using a shell and your includes are functions, you can put them in your .profile, as advised above or just create your header.sh file and source it at the head of all of your script like:

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#!/bin/bash
 
. /home/yourdir/myIncludes/header.sh
 
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and you'll be all set

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Re: Change standard include path

Jun 28th, 2009

> #include "/home/yourdir/myInclude/header.sh"
Don't do this.
Absolute paths to header files are a disaster waiting to happen.
If you reorganise your workspace, or give the code to someone else, then you have to edit ALL the code just to make it compile again.

Instead, do
gcc -I/home/yourdir prog.c
where /home/yourdir is the place where the myInclude directory exists, containing the header.h file.