Working on an existing mk-project project¶

Open an mk-project project¶

For opening an existing project you can make use of the *.mkp file from your project.

Either by calling mk-project with the *.mkp file given as argument:
```
$ mk-project /path/to/project_folder/prgname.mkp
```
Or open the project within mk-project‘s G.U.I (Projects ‣ Load project).
By using your file manager:

Simply click on the *.mkp file in the project folder

or

Opening the *.mkp file with your file manager using the open with option.

To open the mk-project G.U.I and loading the entire project.
Using the mk-project G.U.I:

Use the menu item Projects ‣ Load project and choose the *.mkp of interest.

To load the entire project in the mk-project G.U.I

All targets will be available according to your settings.

Note

Else you can simply use a terminal to use the mk-project projects:

simply type make help in the project folder to sea the available targets.

Open the mk-project G.U.I and use the menu item Projects -> Reconfigure project

to open the project reconfiguring project interface.

Here you can:

Change some settings of your project.
Enable or disable some features.
Edit the Licensing boilerplate to prepend it to all source and header files if you want to do so.
Edit the desktop file boilerplate.

Open an existing project and then use the menu item Projects -> Add file(s) to project.

Then select the file(s) you want to add to your project.

Note

Take care of the checkbutton in the file chooser !

You can choose to add the corresponding header file to your project.

note: If the header file doesn’t exist it will be create.

Warning

The file(s) must be in the ./src folder or subfolders from it !

Take care to organize your project properly so that all source files still in the ./src folder from your project !

Else you can add the file(s) to your project anyway but this can break your project tree if you rename the project folder.

note:	It’s better to create sub-folders from the `./src` folder to organize your project properly !