Flutter build folder location

[Claudio Kloss]

Does anyone know if there is a way to change the location of the build folder?

[Chris Bracken]

Flutter supports a JSON-formatted file in your home directory named .flutter_settings that allows you to override this path. 

Specifically, creating it with the following contents:

  {build-dir: "somePath"}

will result in build outputs being written to somePath.

We don't specifically document this anywhere as far as I'm aware, and given its low level of usage, I imagine it's likely there are some bugs. If so, please report them.

Cheers,

Chris

On Thu, 31 May 2018 at 07:30, Claudio Kloss <ckl...@gmail.com> wrote:

Does anyone know if there is a way to change the location of the build folder?

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[Chris Bracken]

Thanks for the report -- would you mind filing a bug for this and cc me? Please include logs of a run of "flutter --verbose build ..." and note the desire for absolute path support.

As I say, it's a feature that we don't advertise, and that very likely hasn't been used by anyone in years; looks like it's bit-rotted.

Cheers,

Chris

On Thu, 31 May 2018 at 12:09, Claudio Kloss <ckl...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thank You for replying.

Here is what i found so far:

• "somePath" must be relative or else we get an exception (_Exception: Exception: build-dir config setting in C:\Users\Claudio\AppData\Roaming\.flutter_settings must be relative)
• "somePath" must exist or else we get another exception (FileSystemException: Cannot open file, path = '..\dev_build\Testes\teste\frontend_server.d')
• After a complete build it only put 2 files on "somePath" ("app.dill" and "frontend_server.d"). All the others files went to the default "build" folder inside the project.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong...

Anyway I was hoping for something more like what we have with native android, like this:

buildDir = "C:/dev_build/android/${rootProject.name}/${project.name}"

Cheers,

Claudio Kloss

[Chris Bracken]

Exactly - click the New Issue link from https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues then fill out the details from there.

Thanks!

On Fri, 1 Jun 2018 at 09:50, Claudio Kloss <ckl...@gmail.com> wrote:

Just to be sure, what you mean is for me to create a new issue on github.com/flutter, right?

[Claudio Kloss]

Just to be sure, what you mean is for me to create a new issue on github.com/flutter, right?

[Claudio Kloss]

Thank You for replying.

Here is what i found so far:

• "somePath" must be relative or else we get an exception (_Exception: Exception: build-dir config setting in C:\Users\Claudio\AppData\Roaming\.flutter_settings must be relative)
• "somePath" must exist or else we get another exception (FileSystemException: Cannot open file, path = '..\dev_build\Testes\teste\frontend_server.d')
• After a complete build it only put 2 files on "somePath" ("app.dill" and "frontend_server.d"). All the others files went to the default "build" folder inside the project.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong...

Anyway I was hoping for something more like what we have with native android, like this:

buildDir = "C:/dev_build/android/${rootProject.name}/${project.name}"

Cheers,

Claudio Kloss

On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 12:53 PM Chris Bracken <cbra...@google.com> wrote:

[Claudio Kloss]

Ok, I'll file a bug for this later.

[Claudio Kloss]

I've opened it : #18140  

On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 6:08 PM Fabio de Matos Quaresma Gonçalves <fmat...@gmail.com> wrote:

Pls also post bug # here, I'd like to follow what happens next.

this is also a file that should be added to .gitignore