Subj : Re: long path problem To : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp From : "Reddy" Date : Mon Aug 25 2003 11:12 am thanx for reply i solved the problem "Tim Jackson" wrote in message news:3f46a86f$1@newsgroups.borland.com... > I once installed BC5 in some place like C:/engineering/programming/bc5 and > it didn't work very well because of this sort of problem. In my case the > easiest solution was to reinstall bc5 in its default location in the root > directory. It mostly gave problems with linking in the IDE, and I often had > to use the command line to invoke the linker > > If it is just a particular include directory with a very long pathname, > there are a few things you could do. > > One would be to copy your include files to your working directory or to > BC5/INCLUDE > > Another would be to move or copy the whole directory somewhere more > convenient, eg to BC5/INCLUDE > > If the include files are shared on a network and unmoveable, then you could > map a drive letter directly to the include directory. As Andrue Cope pointed > out you can also use the DOS command SUBST to map an unused drive letter to > a directory on your own drive, click "Start", Run..." and type eg > SUBST F: C:\MYINCLUDEPATH > SUBST F: /D to remove it again > > If the problem is due to the aggregate of include directories in the IDE, on > the source path line in Project/Options/Directories, rather than the length > of an individual path, then you could merge some of the directories or name > them directly in the #include statement eg. > #include > > > Tim Jackson > > > "Reddy" wrote in message > news:3f45d3bf@newsgroups.borland.com... > > hi > > every body > > i have a very long include file path.so i am not able to build my project > . > > is there any way to solve this > > regards > > vijay pothireddy > > > > > > .