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AppGameKit Classic Chat / Does the final build care where the source files were saved?

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Scraggle
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Posted: 19th Dec 2014 20:54
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I've only been using AppGameKit for about a month but I've already built up quite a healthy library of reusable code - maths, collision, xml parsing etc. and I am keeping it all in a 'Libraries' folder.

So if I want to include my xml parser in a project then instead of having to make a copy of it, I can simply:
#include "../libraries/xml.agc"

That works fine and it makes much more sense than making multiple copies of source code to include in each project - a nightmare if I edit any of it!

My question is: Once compiled into a final build, is the location of the source code now irrelevant? I don't want to continue down this path only to find lots of problems later on. My thought is - 'of course not, it's a build and the location of source code is now meaningless' but I just want to be sure.

Thanks
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Markus
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Posted: 19th Dec 2014 21:01
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if u compile u make a executable file that not required the source code.

the other problem with shared libs are, if u make changes at this
u must edit all projects that contains this.
maybe its better to copy a good last edited lib to the project folder where u need it. i always remark with last edit date the lib and/or functions.

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Scraggle
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Posted: 19th Dec 2014 21:07
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Thanks Markus, that's what I thought but just wanted to be sure.

As for copying the libraries - I only add code to my libraries once they are fully tested and robust. The only edits I would make would be to add additional functions

But its still a good tip
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