Create out folder if it does not exist

[physikerwelt]

pdflatex -file-line-error -time-statistics -c-style-errors -max-print-line=10000 -interaction=nonstopmode -output-directory=C:/git/tex/out onefile.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.18 (TeX Live 2017/W32TeX) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
pdflatex: unrecognized option `-time-statistics'
pdflatex: unrecognized option `-c-style-errors'
pdflatex: unrecognized option `-max-print-line=10000'
entering extended mode
./onefile.tex:0: I can't write on file `onefile.log'.
(Press Enter to retry, or Control-Z to exit; default file extension is `.log')
Please type another transcript file name
./onefile.tex:0: Emergency stop
./onefile.tex:0:  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

after creating the out folder the error was resolved.

[stenwessel]

This is especially relevant when the tex source contains statements like \include{path/to/foo}. The compiler wants to create aux file for foo.tex at out/path/to/foo.aux, but will fail when out/path/to does not exist. Only MiKTeX (that I know of) will create these directories automatically, but MacTex for example will not and just fails to compile.

See also discussion in #25 and https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/64313/pdflatex-xelatex-output-directory-and-subdirectories-when-using-include

[physikerwelt]

Thank you for the link. I did not know that you can configure external tools in intelliJ. For now, I'll use the external tool latexmk, which is quite convenient and has the advantage that I can use the same compile pipeline independent of the GUI.