compile project from editor

[guillermooo]

@rneatherway @rojepp

How does this work on other editors? Do they run msbuild on behalf of the user? Fake? Both? Is there a standard approach?

[rneatherway]

There is not a standard approach. In Emacs, when an F# file is loaded it look for a project or solution file nearby or in an enclosing directory. Applying msbuild to this is offered as a default compilation command. On *nix this is just xbuild. On Windows it looks for msbuild in the usual places: https://github.com/fsharp/emacs-fsharp-mode/blob/master/fsharp-mode-util.el

[kjnilsson]

Vim works similarly.
On Mon, 25 May 2015 at 15:30, Robin Neatherway notifications@github.com
wrote:

There is not a standard approach. In Emacs, when an F# file is loaded it
look for a project or solution file nearby or in an enclosing directory.
Applying msbuild to this is offered as a default compilation command. On
*nix this is just xbuild. On Windows it looks for msbuild in the usual
places:
https://github.com/fsharp/emacs-fsharp-mode/blob/master/fsharp-mode-util.el

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[guillermooo]

@rneatherway I believe you mentioned somewhere else that fsac would provide the path to msbuild as well. Is this in already?

[rneatherway]

It's not in yet: ionide/FsAutoComplete#23

I just haven't had time. If anyone does, I will do the review and release. Otherwise hopefully I will get to it soon.