I moved a project from one computer to another with the identical version of STM32CubeIDE installed. When I drop the file tree into a workspace, the IDE will not compile it. This is an obvious thing that should just work. Why doesn't it?

[Peter BENSCH]

Welcome, @BBolton​, to the community!

The question is a little imprecise with too little information. A project may well have references outside the project (of the project directory). Can you please insert the compilation problems here?

Regards

/Peter

[BBolton]

The IDE says it can't find a rule for "make -all" when I attempt to compile the directory I copied over. I've never created any references outside the project directory. This morning I was able to get it to compile using the same tedious process I've had to use before: create a new project from the .ioc of the previous project, import my .h and .c files one by one; use a file compare tool to make the IDE generated files in core directory identical to the ones in my project; then manually copy any missing driver files into the Drivers directory. Then it compiles fine. There has to be a simpler way than this.

When I do a directory compare if the newly generated project with the one I copied over the differences are considerable. In particular, the IDE has a number of files that use absolute file paths rather than relative. That alone will break things.

Kind Regards,

Brent