MS Visual Studio 2022 not able to open source files with path length more than 120 characters

Question

While building a project on the MS visual studio 2022. I'm getting the following error:

Error   C1083   Cannot open source file: '..\..\..\..\Source\Application-Protocols\network_transport\tcp_sockets_wrapper\ports\freertos_plus_tcp\tcp_sockets_wrapper.c': No such file or director

If I rename file/folder names to make the length of the path less than or equal to 120 (current length is 124), the error goes away and the project is built successfully.

I think this might be due to a setting that disallows paths greater than particular length, but I'm not sure where to update that.

VS project

Answer 1

Hi @Tony Josi ,

so it seems like there isn’t a portable or straight-forward solution yet, is that right?

Yes. For Visual Studio, currently, it’s still a limit.

Shortening the path or using a short path is a workaround.

Best Regards,

Tianyu

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