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I have a number of libraries that I have developed for various projects, e.g. a web server, some computation tools, some logging tools, etc.

These reside in different parts of my drive.

When I have a project that uses a few of these, I (rudimentarily) just copy the source files from the library's folder to the project's source directory, and compile it all together. If I make some changes to a library, I then copy it back to the main repository for the library. This then causes problems as I may want to update the library everywhere else that it is used.

What is a better way to manage this cleanly?

In Visual Studio you can have multiple "projects" which are interdependent, but you have to load all of them in the same solution. I want something like this, but not dependent on Visual Studio, and without having to load everything I've ever written whenever I do some work.

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    Basically, you are looking for a dependency manager and an artefact repository.
    – Laiv
    Oct 21, 2020 at 8:47

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Packages and package managers are meant to be used for this.

For .NET / Visual Studio, that means NuGet.

Creating new NuGet package is trivial nowadays with available tooling. And hosting on NuGet is free.

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  • Thank you for your response. I used Visual Studio as an example -- my code isn't actually .NET, are there cross-platform alternatives?
    – CaptainCodeman
    Oct 21, 2020 at 8:59
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    Java has Maven, NodeJS has NPM, Python as Pim, etc. You have to search for it a bit.
    – Laiv
    Oct 21, 2020 at 11:17

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