VSCode Linux tasks.json MQL4 Compilation
VSCode Linux tasks.json MQL4 Compilation
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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
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{
"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",
]
},
}
]
}
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Quoted from Forex.com.bd-Editorial External question — Stack Overflow Stack Exchange Author: Shion Source score (net votes, not local likes): 0 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
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