Sublime Text 3: Capturing Build System Results (example for Visual Studio/MSBuild output) #sublimetext

1.subl-build-system-capture.js

{
    "build_systems":
    [
        {
            "name": "build system one",
            "working_dir": "$project_path/code",
            "cmd":
            [
                "msbuild",
                "/path/to/solution.sln",
                "/property:Configuration=Release",
            ],
            "shell": true,
            "file_regex": "^.*\\.\\.\\\\([\\S]+)\\((\\d+)\\)():(.+) \\[",
        },
        "variants":
        [
            {
                "name": "cmake",
                "cmd": [
                    "cmake",
                    "-GVisual Studio 10 2010 Win64", // generator
                    "-Bbuild", // build dir
                    "-Hsrc", // source dir
                ],
            }
        ],
    ]
}

2.readme.md

All relative paths are relative to the one set in working_dir. The parameter is described below.

See regexr.com/3eeas for how the regex works. Note that backslashes have to be escaped with a backslash like \\, which makes the regex hard to read.

The capture groups are for filename, line number, column number and error message. There is no column number in the MSBuild output, therefore the third capture group is empty here.

The docs say to set result_file_regex, but actually that is what Packages/Default/exec.py sets for the output view. In the signature of the run method from the ExecCommand class you can see that file_regex is what needs to be set.

In the docs there is also a result_base_dir mentioned that is set for the view. The corresponding parameter to pass is named working_dir and defaults to the path of the current file when running the build system. The file_regex must match a file path relative to that directory, otherwise the status bar will tell "No more results" (even if the regex actually matched a string).

It's possible to pass a syntax definition (default is "Packages/Text/Plain text.tmLanguage").

The cmake variant inherits the properties like shell and working_dir.