{"id":5718,"date":"2020-03-22T20:32:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T03:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/?p=5718"},"modified":"2020-03-22T20:32:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T03:32:38","slug":"visualgdb-project-variables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/documentation\/variables\/","title":{"rendered":"VisualGDB Project Variables"},"content":{"rendered":"

To avoid hardcoding absolute file paths in the VisualGDB project properties files, VisualGDB defines the following project variables:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
$(VISUALGDB_DIR)<\/td>\nThe directory containing VisualGDB.exe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
$(ConfigurationName)<\/td>\nThe name of the current project configuration<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
$(ProjectDir)<\/td>\nThe directory containing the Visual Studio project<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
$(ProjectDirUnixStyle)<\/td>\nProject directory converted to ‘c\/dir\/file.cpp’ format.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
$(LocalSourceDir)<\/td>\nDirectory containing source files (path on the Windows computer):<\/p>\n
    \n
  • For Remote projects – source directory specified in file transfer settings<\/li>\n
  • For Custom projects – user-defined variable<\/li>\n
  • For other project types – equivalent to $(ProjectDir)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
$(RemoteSourceDir)<\/td>\nDirectory containing source files (path on remote computer if applicable)<\/p>\n
    \n
  • For Remote projects – destination directory in file transfer settings<\/li>\n
  • For Custom projects – user-defined variable<\/li>\n
  • For other project types – undefined<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
$(SourceDir)<\/td>\nFor Remote projects – equivalent to $(RemoteSourceDir)<\/strong>
\nFor other projects – equivalent to $(LocalSourceDir)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
$(BuildDir)<\/td>\nUser-defined directory where build commands are executed.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
$(TargetPath)<\/td>\nFull path to the main binary file of the project (e.g. the EXE file)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
$(TargetDir)<\/td>\nThe directory containing the main binary file of the project<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
$(TargetFileName)<\/td>\nThe name of the main project binary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
$(TargetExtension)<\/td>\nThe extension of the main project binary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
$(DeployPath)<\/td>\nFull path of main binary on the deployment machine (cross-compiler projects)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
$(DeployHost)<\/td>\nHost name of the deployment machine (cross-compiler projects)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Additionally to that, you can use the following syntax to modify the value of each variable:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
$(Variable.unixstyle)<\/td>\nConvert c:\\foo\\bar<\/strong> to c\/foo\/bar<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
$(Variable.forwardslashes)<\/td>\nConvert c:\\foo\\bar<\/strong> to c:\/foo\/bar<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
$(Variable.nospaces)<\/td>\nReplace spaces with underscores<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
$(Variable.defuse)<\/td>\nReplace all non-identifier characters with underscores<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Additionally to the VisualGDB variables, you can use the Windows environment variables (e.g. $(LOCALAPPDATA)\\xyz<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

You can view the list of variables for a specific project by clicking the link at the bottom of the VisualGDB Project Properties window:\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To avoid hardcoding absolute file paths in the VisualGDB project properties files, VisualGDB defines the following project variables: $(VISUALGDB_DIR) The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5718"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5721,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5718\/revisions\/5721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}