Question

I´m using Sublime Text 2 together with the ant build system. CTRL+B works perfectly fine to start the build with the default target. However my question is, is there a ways to define different ant build targets and have a mechanism to switch between them easily?

I thought about creating additional custom build commands for each target – for example like “clean”. It works, but that is not the best approach in my eyes because you have to go to “Tools > Build System > Ant (clean)” and hit CTRL+B afterwards.

Answer 1

Save this build file as *.sublime-build file in the Packages/User folder

{
    "selector": "source.java",
    "cmd": ["ant"],

    "variants": [

        { "cmd": ["solve_world_hunger"],
          "name": "Solve World Hunger"
        },

        { "cmd": ["ant", "clean"],
          "name": "Run"
        }
    ]
}

• Default target will build on ctrl+b
• The cmd named Run in the variants array will run on ctrl+shift+b
• Any cmd in the variants array can be run via the command palette by searching for name. i.e. hit ctrl+shift+p and type Solve World Hunger to run the solve world hunger command.