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maria
maria

Reputation: 71

What goes in an "inc" includes folder in a project?

I'm putting my Simplicity Studio project into TortoiseSVN. I've been told to create an inc (includes) folder and use it. What is it? Why would I use it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3829

Answers (2)

Clifford
Clifford

Reputation: 93546

You might ask the person who "told" you to do that - it is not a language or tool-chain requirement.

The preprocessor does not care where the include files are so long is you tell it (either in the #include directive itself, by command line options or environment variables). Putting all headers in a folder separate to the associated .c files is a common practice but often a habit rather than for any good reason. It is useful when the headers relate to some static, shared library, or DLL where the headers are to be distributed with the compiled object code.

In other cases it is arguably simpler and more useful to keep the headers and the associated .c files in the same directory as each other. That allows for example "localised" headers to be included using double-quotes without needing to explicitly tell the preprocessor which paths to search.

Upvotes: 2

David
David

Reputation: 1694

It's just a convention, not something that is required. For large projects it is often used to hold any file that is included from another file, i.e.:

#include "headerFile.h"

Upvotes: 2

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