Hey Guys,

I'm doing a lot of library development for my projects, and have created a number of my own custom libraries for things. With most of my libraries, I organize them using multiple headers and .cpp files (all in /src) for the different classes and components of the library and then I #include them in that main Library file. So far, this all works great for me and I have fairly nicely organized Libraries.

Thing is, and it's only a slight annoyance: when I add that library to a new Arduino project, using the VM menu, it will automatically #includes every header in the Library's /src folder, to my .ino file.

Usually, I just delete all the extraneous #includes, leaving behind only the Libraries main .h file, and it always works without issue. Everything I need is available to me in the .ino and it all works with Intellisense just fine. It hasn't actually been a compiler or linker problem, so I've just been dealing with it this way for awhile now.

However, libraries other than mine, do not do this. I've looked at the source with these other libraries before, and there are some that have extra headers like mine (can't remember which at the moment), but I could never figure out what they were doing differently from me so that their extra headers wouldn't be auto included like this.

Also, I'm not sure if this is just a VM thing, or if it's an Arduino thing, since I haven't really ever used the Arduino compiler, I sort of just went straight to VS and VM when I first started with all this microcontroller madness, and I haven't been able to figure out what my search on Google would even be for this. 

Cheers and Thanks for any insights or help you can offer.

Simon@Visual Micro wrote on Nov 12^th, 2024 at 7:47am:


Honestly, this is exactly why I love VM and this forum! I've been lurking for awhile now, and usually don't land up posting, because you guys provide such great answers that usually answer my today question anyways, and plus, you do it so quick!

Anyways, the last few years I've done so much learning (C/C++, OOP, MCU/Arduino, ElecEng), and this is an area I've really been needing to deep dive into, but I kind of forgot about it trying to learn everything else and solve all my other problems (templates, for example, took forever to finally "get"). 

Thanks for giving me this handle into it... This looks like exactly where I needed to start, so I think I'll top up the coffee and set in for a few hours of reading and learning...

Cheers,

Rob