Thread: How do Including Paths Work?

Hi,

So I wrote a bunch of classes for an old project that I want to use in a new project. So I put each of the classes in its own directory (the h and cpp file), then put all those directories on in the top level of my project. Some of the classes are dependent upon each other, and originally all this source was just in the same directory. If a c or h file has an include with quotes "" where is it looking?

If one of the classes is including another class, Can I just do:
"class_directory/class.h"
or should it be:
"../class_directory/class.h"

Maybe this is all dependent on the ide?

Thanks, I couldn't find any info about this, didn't really know what I was searching for.

AFAIK
"myheader.h" looks in the pwd.

"../myheader.h" looks in its parent dir.

And this behaviour isn't dependent on any thing. (I don't know if it can be modified by something in the makefile, though )

Alright, so any includes in a source file are going to look in their own working directory. I always get hung up on the simple stuff :P

Thanks for the help though.

Originally Posted by Elysia

They would look in the directory they are lying... files cannot have a working directory I presume; that would be reserved for applications.
I cannot help but notice the ".c" though. If this is supposed to be C, then you posted on the wrong board!

It'd then be the compiler's working dir, when reading that file .