We have a few modules with identical filenames in our project. So I set the Object Filename project setting to:
$(IntDir)\%(Directory)\.
This works fine except that it uses too much of the file's path. The path structure is thus:
C:\a\b\c\project.sln
C:\a\d\extern
extern has some stuff like boost in it. The resulting output is...
C:\a\b\c\Release\a\b\c\etc\.obj
C:\a\b\c\Release\a\d\extern\etc\.obj
I'd prefer to lop the first two levels off the folder names, so it comes out as..
C:\a\b\c\Release\c\etc\.obj
C:\a\b\c\Release\extern\etc\.obj
Is there some kind of undocumented path syntax which is similar to .. but acts against the front of the next folder(s) rather than the back of the previous folders? Something like:
$(IntDir)\>>\>>\%(Directory)\ where >> moves us up the left hand side of %(Directory)?
Thanks in advance for any advice offered.
