Multiple platform project settings separation

[cesaretiveron]

Hi,

I’m currently working on a project that can target two different Linux platforms. In this situation I managed to keep different project settings for each platform by enabling all the checkboxes under “Separate settings for:” in the “Manage Platform and Configurations” window (see attached screenshot).
However this option doesn’t seem to work with the following sections of the Project Properties window:

• Custom build steps
• Custom debug steps
• User variables

 

This is an issue with my project because different settings needs to be applied for each platform under those sections. Is there a way to fix this behaviour?

Thank you

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[support]

Hi,

Indeed, the custom build/debug steps, are shared between multiple project configurations. The easiest way to have run different actions depending on the configuration platforms is to use the “Reference a reusable action list” action with a variable-based path (e.g. $(PlatformName).vgdbxactions).

The user variable values are stored in per-user files (e.g. <Project>.<UserName>.user), so having them differ between platforms would cause conflicts. Instead, we would advise having the variables for all platforms defined together, and then using them depending on the platform, e.g.:

• The variable list defines DeployHostARM and DeployHostX86
• The ARM platform references $(DeployHostARM)
• The X86 platform references $(DeployHostX86)

If this doesn’t work, feel free to let us know more about your setup, and we will try to suggest a better layout.

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