is there away to avoid to have the .cmi files next to .ml files for the code completion (across modules) to work?

[tzAcee]

Hi everybody,
I currently compile my project with just the ocamlopt compiler. I dont have either dune nor merlin installed (at least not actively).
As known the compiler generates a lot of intermediate files (cmi, cmx, cmo, ...). I would like to have them in a seperate build folder together with the binary, so my project directory is kept clean.

But when I do that my IDE (Zed and VSCode) whines about a Unbound module (I've deleted everything, but the .cmi files for demonstration).

This works when I compile the intermediate files alongside the .ml code.

Is there a way to change the lookup path?

Is it even related to the .cmi files? I've been just experimenting around and figured out that it behaves like that :D

[tzAcee]

I actually think this is more of an question to merlin actually, since the ocamllsp sends the request to the merlin-lib as far as I can see.

[voodoos]

You could write a .merlin file by hand: https://github.com/ocaml/merlin/wiki/Project-configuration indicating what are you build (B) directories.
Then you can have ocaml-lsp read these configuration files by using the --fallback-read-dot-merlin.

There is an open issue describing a plan to improve the behaviour of that flag, but no one started working on that yet: #1522