Disabling Compilation for a Filesystem

You can disable compilation on a mounted filesystem. This feature is particularly useful if you mount a library to browse its sources but you do not want it to be recompiled every time you compile an application that is dependent on the library.

To disable compilation for a filesystem:

  1. In the Explorer, select the Filesystems tab.

  2. Right-click the filesystem's node and choose Properties from the contextual menu.

  3. In the Properties window, choose the Capabilities tab.

  4. Set the Use In Compiler property to False.

To access settings for all mounted filesystems (including hidden ones):

  1. In the Explorer, select the Filesystems tab.

  2. Right-click the Filesystems node (the top node) and choose Customize from the contextual menu.

The Customizer Dialog will appear with a list of filesystems in the left pane and a property sheet in the right pane. The property sheet displays the properties of the filesystem selected in the left pane.

On the property sheet, you can configure a filesystem to determine whether it is displayed and writable. For directories, you can also determine which kind of files are backed up when saving by typing the appropriate file extensions in the Extensions of Backup Files property.

If you select the Capabilities tab of the property sheet, you can set or disable the availability of that filesystem for compilation, running, and debugging. You can also set whether the filesystem should be used as Javadoc documentation.


Capabilities settings apply to entire filesystems. However, if you would like to keep individual sources in a file system from being accidentally compiled, open the source's property sheet, switch to the Execution tab, and change the source's Compiler property to Do Not Compile.
See also
Disabling Compilation of a Single Source File
Filesystems in the IDE
Mounting a Filesystem
Changing the Mount Order of Filesystems
Configuring a Mounted Filesystem

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