premake/website/docs/includeexternal.md

Evaluates a script, and marks any containers created by that script as external.

includeexternal("path")

For complex multi-workspace builds, it can be advantageous to have a set of projects that are generated by one workspace, and then used by the other workspaces as-is, without regenerating.

With this function, you can include a script which may contain one or more project or rule definitions. All such containers will be marked as external, and simply referenced, but not regenerated.

Parameters

path is the file system path to a script file or a directory. See include() for a more complete description.

Availability

Premake 5.0 or later.

See Also

• externalproject
• externalrule
• include