VSCode Linux tasks.json MQL4 Compilation

External question — Stack Overflow Stack Exchange Author: Shion Original post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64131060 License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. I am switching to VSCode from MetaEditor to develop for MetaTrader4. I'm using MetaTrader4 and MetaEditor in Linux via Wine. (and MetaEditor runs quite terribly in Wine) I would like to create a task to compile the code, and hopefully return the same error log to VSCode to further debug the code as if I was using MetaEditor. I've used this post to figure out what CLI command has been used to compile MQL4: Compiling MQL4 via command line through wine metaeditor.exe /usr/bin/wine /path/to/MT4/metaeditor.exe /compile:"Z:\path\to\MT4\MQL4\Experts\Foo\Bar_EA.mq4" /include:"Z:\path\to\MT4\MQL4" /log My issue is that I don't understand and cannot find any resource that explains what the "commands" inside the tasks.json file does or list of available variables. Like "/include:" or "presentation":, ${file}, etc. So I took some guesses and I pieced it together to look something like this so far: { "version": "2.0.0", "tasks": [ { "label": "MQL4 Compile", "type": "shell", "command": "/usr/bin/wine /.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/FXChoice MetaTrader 4/metaeditor.exe", "args": [ "/compile:${file}" ] } ] } Its probably not quite right. I appreciate your help, thank you

External answer — Stack Overflow Stack Exchange Author: SVG Original post: https://stackoverflow.com/a/64759637 License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. { "version": "2.0.0", "tasks": [ { "label": "MQL4-Compile", "group": { "kind" : "build", "isDefault" : true }, "presentation": { "echo" : true, "reveal": "always", "focus" : true, "panel" : "shared" }, "promptOnClose" : true, "type" : "process", "osx" : { "command" : "wine", "args" : [ "/Users/SVG/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/MetaTrader/metaeditor.exe", "/compile:${fileBasename}", "/log:${fileBasenameNoExtension}.log", ] }, "windows" : { "command" : "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\MetaTrader\\metaeditor.exe", "args" : [ "/compile:${fileBasename}", "/log:${fileBasenameNoExtension}.log", ] }, } ] }