Where are the header files in Project Explorer?

[jlthompson]

Where are the header files in Project Explorer? I can open Application/User/main.c and see that it includes main.h, but it's nowhere to be found in the Project Explorer. If i right-click main.h in its includfe statement in main.c and select 'Open Declaration', it opens main.h. Hovering on the editor tab, I see it's in my project under 'Inc', but that folder does not show up in Project explorer, either.

So I use File Explorer and find it in my project folder in the 'Inc' folder that does not appear in Project Explorer. I don't understand this; someone please explain it to me.

Also, I want to add a header file, so I select File/New/Header File, and it opens a dialog box where I use the 'Browse...' button to select a home for it. The 'Inc' folder does not appear there, either. Where do I put my new header file? I'm totally at sea on this.

I'm using:

STM32CubeIDE
Version: 1.18.1
Build: 24813_20250409_2138 (UTC)

 

Thanks!

[Andrew Neil]

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@jlthompson wrote:

 I see it's in my project under 'Inc', but that folder does not show up in Project explorer

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It should do!

What host OS are you running on?

Please post a screenshot of your Project Explorer.

 

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@jlthompson wrote:

I want to add a header file, so I select File/New/Header File, and it opens a dialog box where I use the 'Browse...' button to select a home for it. The 'Inc' folder does not appear there, either.

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Again, it should.

Please also show a screenshot of the actual folder structure on disk.

 

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@jlthompson wrote:

Where do I put my new header file?

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Anywhere you like!

It will need to be somewhere covered by your Include Paths.

[jlthompson]

Here are screenshots of

File Explorer showing Inc folder with main header file

Project Explorer not showing Inc folder

New File Folder Selector not showing Inc folder

[jlthompson]

Also, if I put headers in the File Explorer Inc folder. main.c seems to know how to access them. But if I put them in the Project Explorer Application/User folder, it does not. I'm confused.

I'm in the process of adding the 'funbiscuit' Embedded CLI to a copy of the USART_Communication_TxRx_DMA_Init example project. Maybe that's the culprit. The icons on main.c and stm32g0xx_it.c are pretty hard to read, but they may be trying to indicate they are links and not actual files.