Importing an MPLAB IDE v8 Project – Relative Paths

For an MPLAB IDE v8 project located at:

C:\MyProjects\mplab8project

On importing to MPLAB X IDE you will get:

C:\MyProjects\mplab8project\mplab8project.X

The MPLAB X IDE imported project is placed by default under the MPLAB IDE v8 project to preserve maintainability of both projects. However, you can place the MPLAB X IDE project folder anywhere. Also, the name of the project will be set as mplab8project.X but you can rename it if you wish. There is a convention to finish the name of an MPLAB X IDE project with .X but this is just a convention.

The new project will not copy the source files into its folder, but instead will reference the location of the files in the v8 folder. To create an independent MPLAB X IDE project, create a new project and copy the MPLAB IDE v8 source files to it.

For details, see Import an Existing MPLAB IDE v8 Project.