Adding header and source files from other directories.

Development Programming & Scripting C++
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I’ve read many posts and seen many topics on this. I’ve read documentation but nothing seems to work.

My impression is that in the Build.cs you can add


PublicIncludePaths.Add("../my/relative/path/include");

and then in a .h in your project you can


#include "FolderInMyIncludes/MyHeaderFile.h"

It would be great to just do a public and private include path .Add and add and include and source folders and then use those and build the project.

I can’t add this as a code without manual modification everytime the external files change.

What am I missing? Why is this so hard?

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I know it is possible to use relative paths to get a single .h file included but anything that includes won’t have knowledge of it’s local path structure so none of the includes in the library will work.

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Hey @Burnrate I am having the same issue when using UE5, did you ever find a solution to this problem you could share?