Really? I just double checked to see if MSVC 2010 was smart enough to do this and it wasn't. It generates a "LNK4042: object specified more than once; extras ignored" unless you manually number the object files or stick them in subdirectories yourself.

I also remember VC will put all .obj files to one directory, so the source files with same names will override each other's .obj file, no matter which directory the source files are in.
Anyway, I always use unique source file name to avoid trouble.

Here also has some discussion on that issue,
http://stackoverflow...lename-conflict
And here,
http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/361228/visual-c-compilers-only-one-file-of-two-with-the-same-name

Really? I just double checked to see if MSVC 2010 was smart enough to do this and it wasn't. It generates a "LNK4042: object specified more than once; extras ignored" unless you manually number the object files or stick them in subdirectories yourself.

I also remember VC will put all .obj files to one directory, so the source files with same names will override each other's .obj file, no matter which directory the source files are in.
However, I maybe wrong because now I only use CMake to generate VC project file which maybe different with native project file.
Anyway, I always use unique source file name to avoid trouble.

Here also has some discussion on that issue,
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1968685/visual-c-2008-express-cpp-filename-conflict