Hi,

I have some shared .ino files that I use between projects and would like to just "include" them from a shared folder - when I tried this, the compiler complained.

After reading through some posts here, I understand you must have all project files in the same folder.  I also read that you can put files in subfolders as long as they are in the same parent/project folder.  However, that approach doesn't seem to work well.

What is your recommended approach to sharing files between projects? I don't really want to have copies of them between the two projects.

Thanks!
gdood

Hi gdood,

1)

Marius explains about adding your common code to a library. It is the official Arduino way.

2)

Quote:


Maybe some confusion here. Arduino does not support code in sub folders unless under a the libraries areas.

3)

There are small differences between using libraries and sketch code. If you find libraries do not achieve what you need please continue this post by giving a small example of how auto included (shared) .ino code would be useful to you. It can then be considered as a future enhancement.

Thanks

You would have to convert them to .cpp and .h files to create a library.

We can consider a shared source code system. It's easy the difficult part is working out how to avoid support problems and how to show error messages with drill down into source code outside of the project.

Maybe we can look at using short cuts in the solution explorer so the code is known to the project.

You can also explore snippets but they won't give you a single location to change all the code in multiple project

http://www.visualmicro.com/post/2013/06/02/Arduino-Code-Snippets.aspx