[Lazarus] How do you configure separate output directories for projects in same directory.

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 20:59:21 +0100
Frank Church <vfclists at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am creating 2 projects from the same source files with LCL Widget Type
> win32/win64 and the other with LCL WidgetType NoGUI.
> 
> The win32/win64 version contains both Forms GUI and DataModules for running
> on Windows, and the NoGUI version contains the DataModules and is targetted
> mainly at on Linux, although it can run on Windows as well.
> 
> All the project and source files are in the same directory. Is there some
> way to configure the output directories and unit search paths of the
> projects separately so that the different units created do not overwrite
> each other, when I switch from one to the other, althouugh with the project
> and source files in the same directory?

You can use macros.
For example set the "unit output directory" to
"units/$(TargetOS)-$(LCLWidgetType)".
Set the "Target file name" to "YourProjectName".

See 
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/IDE_Window:_Compiler_Options#Paths


Mattias