From 181ff80fa396c94a6f2058c0f971d881dcd68db8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: firewave <firewave@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2025 14:36:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] document external file lookup order [skip ci]

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 man/manual.md | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man/manual.md b/man/manual.md
index cdc692552d0..b8ab1cceafb 100644
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+++ b/man/manual.md
@@ -429,6 +429,16 @@ You can also create your own custom platform configuration in a XML file. Here i
       </sizeof>
     </platform>
 
+
+The locations to look for a platform in order:
+- relative to GUI project file
+- user folder
+- GUI data folder (GUI only)
+- current working path
+- relative to executable
+- `FILESDIR` hard-coded into binary
+
+
 # C/C++ Standard
 
 Use `--std` on the command line to specify a C/C++ standard.