I am genuinely losing my mind to this

[green tangle]

not on a lot of sleep so maybe this is a simple problem but i have no idea why my include is not working, for context i am using clang, on vs code and am new to using vs as i used to use vs code 2022, i have my root dir, with a src dir, and a headers dir, i am trying to learn cmake, and make use of the target_sources command inside of the cmakelists.txt file but that is not my issues at least it think its not, i am just trying to do a simple include of a header file inside of my headers dir, the names line up and i have tried headers/header.hxx to no avail i just keep getting file not found error

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[green tangle]

error 'header.hxx' file not found

[tardy oxide]

#include "../headers/header.hxx"

[green tangle]

/ for root?

[tardy oxide]

No it's a relative path

[shut steppe]

What do you have in your CMakeLists.txt?

Did you add headers as an include directory?

[green tangle]

just started learning cmake this is the file content ```cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.16)

project name and init setup

project(MyFirstCmake)

creates a "target" the target is the what gets complied usign the build system and src files you add

add_executable(MyFirstCmake)

used to later modify and add files to an existing target

target_sources(MyFirstCmake
PRIVATE
src/main.cxx

PUBLIC
FILE_SET Headers
TYPE HEADERS
BASE_DIRS headers
FILES headers/myHeader.hxx)```

[shut steppe]

Uh, target_include_directories(MyFirstCmake PRIVATE headers) I think

[green tangle]

this works but i don't understand why this was not somthing i needed to do on vs 2022 , also new to vscode

the cmake part i did not even get to test yet since i could not figure out why the include was not working

[tardy oxide]

Because in VS the source/header directories you see in a project are not actual directories. They are just groups of files and have nothing to do with actual places where files are stored.

[green tangle]

i going to need to read more on vs, it has been a huge pain in the ass to use since, alot learning was on the other platform i will look for a guide or somthing, thanks for the help on this

[tardy oxide]

You can also use cmake in VS just like you do in VSC.

[green tangle]

only just started on cmake so hopefully it goes a bit smoother as i learn, it seems like a lot of docs/tutorials just assume you already know what u doing but thanks again 👍