Ant build on InteliiJ Community Edition no compiler errors shown

Question

I have an existing project that I want to build in the IntelliJ Community Edition 11.1.4 running on Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS

In the Ant Build window I added the project\'s

Answer 1

When using plain (not tree) output for ant IntelliJ uses file (line,col): error msg format for javac errors. But error view parser only understands file:line: error msg format.

You could tweak it in PlainTextView class from antIntegration.jar http://grepcode.com/file/repository.grepcode.com/java/ext/com.jetbrains/intellij-idea/10.0/com/intellij/lang/ant/config/execution/PlainTextView.java#98

I just changed addJavacMessage method to following and recompiled the class ``` java

 public void addJavacMessage(AntMessage message, String url) {
    final VirtualFile file = message.getFile();
    if (message.getLine() > 0) {
      final StringBuilder builder = StringBuilderSpinAllocator.alloc();
      try {

        if (file != null) {
          ApplicationManager.getApplication().runReadAction(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
              String presentableUrl = file.getPresentableUrl();
              builder.append(presentableUrl);
//              builder.append(' ');
            }
          });
        }
        else if (url != null) {
          builder.append(url);
//          builder.append(' ');
        }
//        builder.append('(');
        builder.append(':');
        builder.append(message.getLine());
        builder.append(':');
        builder.append(' ');
//        builder.append(message.getColumn());
//        builder.append(")");
        print(builder.toString(), ProcessOutputTypes.STDOUT);
      }
      finally {
        StringBuilderSpinAllocator.dispose(builder);
      }
    }
    print(message.getText(), ProcessOutputTypes.STDOUT);
  }

  public void addException(AntMessage exception, boolean showFullTrace) {
    String text = exception.getText();
    showFullTrace = false;
    if (!showFullTrace) {
      int index = text.indexOf("\r\n");
      if (index != -1) {
        text = text.substring(0, index) + "\n";
      }
    }
    print(text, ProcessOutputTypes.STDOUT);
  }

```

And now I have clickable links in 'plain text' output mode of ant tool. Note, that 'tree mode' shows line & columns correctly - I used IDEA 13 CE.

It would be nice if somebody to create pull request for Intellij regarding this issue.

Answer 2

IDEA just prints Ant's output. Try switching the output from the tree view to the plain text view using the corresponding button on the left of the messages panel:

If the output contains errors, you should be able to see them there.

Also it's much faster and easier to use IDEA provided incremental compilation (Build | Make).

Answer 3

Ant Correct usage in IntelliJ:

javac includeantruntime="false" srcdir="${src.dir}" fork="yes" executable="D:/jdk1.7/bin/javac"
      destdir="${classes.dir}" includes="**/*.java" source="7" classpathref="library.classpath" ...

the most important:

executable="D:/jdk1.7/bin/javac"