Calling project() does not work in certain scopes

[amc522]

In premake 4 I was doing something like the following:

for i, platform in ipairs(solution().platforms) do
    configuration {platform}
        targetdir ("build/" .. platform .. "/" .. project().name)
end

Now in premake 5, I get the following error when trying to call project():

Error: no project in scope

project().name still works everywhere else. It only seems to be a problem when I am iterating over the list of platforms or configurations from the solution object. I have also replaced my configuration call with filter.

Also, is there a better or more preferred way, in premake 5, to iterate over platforms and configurations?

[tvandijck]

With the introduction of tokens you can just remove that entire loop and just do:

targetdir "build/%{cfg.platform}/%{prj.name}"

should result in exactly the same project setup.

[amc522]

That! I like that! Exactly the functionality I was looking for. Thanks.

[tvandijck]

more on tokens here: https://github.com/premake/premake-core/wiki/Tokens