Question

As the question states, i am a C#/Java programmer who is interested in (re)learning C++. As you know C#/Java have a somewhat strict project file structure (especially Java). I find this structure to be very helpful and was wondering if it is a) good practice to do a similar structure in a C++, b) if so, what is the best way to setup it up?

i know there is the basic ‘headers’ and ‘source’ folders, but is there a better way?

Answer 1

I find the structure of java projects quite nice. I do it like this (root is the root directory)

root/include/foo/bar/baz.hpp becomes

namespace foo {  namespace bar {     // declare/define the stuff (classes, functions) here } } // foo::bar 

in code.

I keep the source in

root/src/foo/bar/baz.cpp . If i have some stuff that is not exposed to the outside, i put it into a detail/ directory and namespace. I keep the makefiles at root/.