NEX File Output path issue

[sparkes]

nextbuild.py line 165 has an issue with the path when building projects stored outside the NextBuild directories.

My attempts to change the path didn't work even when they produced an absolute path using BASE_DIR so I'm not able to offer a simple pull request to fix the issue :( My python is obviously very rusty :)

My quick fix was to remove the path entirely and drop sysvars.bin in my project directory.

Environment used
Windows 11.
NextBuild directory is not in the path.

NextBuild Directory is in the parent of my project directory and my task.json uses relative paths as shown below
"windows": { "command": "./../NextBuild/zxbasic/python/python.exe", "args": [ "./../NextBuild/Scripts/nextbuild.py", "${file}" ] },

[em00k]

Thanks, yes all paths are relative to the Nextbuild sources folder. I will look at a more elegant way to handle this.

[em00k]

update to references NextBuildStudio that does not suffer from this and can compile a file in any location.

[danboid]

Here's an example command for building a NextBuild .bas. You must give the absolute path of the .bas as an argument.

I suppose it makes more sense to copy nextbuild.py into NextBuild/Sources and make nextbuild.py executable.

dan@LMDM:~/src/NextBuild/Sources$ python3 ../Scripts/nextbuild.py /home/dan/src/NextBuild/Sources/TilemapScroll/testmap.bas 
===============================================================================================
NextBuild v7.3    : David Saphier / em00k - 19-Mar-2021     https://github.com/em00k/NextBuild
ZX Basic Compiler : Jose Rodriguez aka Boriel               https://zxbasic.readthedocs.io/
Cspect Emulator   : Mike Dailly                             https://cspect.org
===============================================================================================
Input File : /home/dan/src/NextBuild/Sources/TilemapScroll/testmap.bas

Looking for ORG...
Never found ORG
Default ORG  :  32768
Working Dir  :  /home/dan/src/NextBuild/Sources/TilemapScroll
Compiling    :  /home/dan/src/NextBuild/Sources/TilemapScroll/testmap.bas
ZXbasic ver  :  1.17.1

YAY! Compiled OK! 
====================================================
Generating Nexcreator Config ...

Saved config file : testmap.cfg
====================================================
Generating NEX : /home/dan/src/NextBuild/Sources/TilemapScroll\testmap.nex

Requires Core 3.0.0 or greater
File '../../Tools/sysvars.bin' 8K bank 10(16K bank 5, 1c00)
bank=5,addr=1c00,realbank=0,256
PC=$8000
SP=$7ffe
bank=2,addr=0000,realbank=1,3961
Generating NEX file in V1.1 format
Generating NEX file for 1MB machine

Compile Log  :  /home/dan/src/NextBuild/Sources/TilemapScroll\Compile.txt
Memory Log   :  /home/dan/src/NextBuild/Sources/TilemapScroll\Memory.txt

NEX filesize : 33280
NEX created OK! All done.
Overall build time : 0:00:01.4s