Question

I’m having quite a few troubles pointing at a custom directory for Scala source-files in SBT.

I would like sbt to compile scala-files from a given directory instead of the regular src/main/scala directory.

I have tried both defining a .sbt and .scala project files, setting baseDirectory, scalaSource (and scalaSource s in the .scala file). I’ve also toyed around with everything from system-absolute to relative paths but nothing seems to work. It cannot locate any .scala file under the specified directory.

What are the proper ways to handle this?

Answer 1

Try this in build.sbt:

scalaSource in Compile <<= (sourceDirectory in Compile)(_ / "foo")

This will result in a directory src/main/foo for Scala sources. If you want to use some arbitrary directory, go for this:

scalaSource in Compile := file("/Users/heiko/tmp")