If OF to stored on a different drive than your project root, visual studio project file is invalid

[graysonarts]

My setup is this:

• OF directory is stored on my d: drive
• App code is stored on my c: drive (dropbox folder for reasons)

If I used the project generator, the sln and vcxproj files refer to the of directory as a bunch of ../.. with no mention of the drive letter once it gets to the root. This means the solution file and the vcxproj file need to have a search and replace done on it that replaces all of the ../'s with the drive letter (in my case d:.

If I can figure it out, I'll send a PR that checks for going across drive boundaries, and then just using the absolute path from the drive.

[ofZach]

thanks for the detailed report.

If it's helpful I would guess that the error is somewhere in here:

https://github.com/openframeworks/projectGenerator/blob/5233313662c9672db6670423ede30627a1092c1a/ofxProjectGenerator/src/utils/Utils.cpp#L398-L443

which is computing the relative path to the OF root -- it looks like maybe we haven't considered separate drives?

[graysonarts]

Thanks for the pointer on where to look. I'll try to get a PR out tonight or tomorrow. Should be a relative straightforward fix looking at the code you linked