Adding new task dependencies to built-in SBT tasks?

Question

Is it possible to override or modify built-in SBT tasks (like compile) to depend on custom tasks in my own Build.scala? Overriding e.g. \"compile\" directly is not possible sinc

Answer 1

Since this question appears when Googling how to add a dependency in SBT, and the current answers are deprecated as of 0.13.x and removed in 1.0, here's the updated answer, assuming that printAction is the task that compile should depend on:

(Compile / compile) := ((Compile / compile) dependsOn printAction).value