How can you build and run from VSCode?

[zarrix]

A while back I saw a video where a guy was using vscode to do the programming of a defold project and he had created a task to perform the build and run of the game. I can’t remember what command was called to perform the build/run and I can’t find the video.

Does anyone have any idea how to do this?

[britzl]

We provide a command-line tool for building and bundling: https://www.defold.com/manuals/bob/

[Pkeod]

Here is a bob build script I’m currently using in production

Build and bundle for multiple platforms from the command line

Here is current version I’ve used multiple times to upload release builds multiple times to live users now #!/bin/bash title=$(less game.project | grep "^title = " | cut -d "=" -f2 | sed -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//') title_no_space=$(echo -e "${title}" | tr -d '[[:space:]]') echo "Project: ${title}" if [ ! -f bob.jar ] then echo "Unable to find bob.jar. Download it from d.defold.com." exit 1 fi bob() { java -jar bob.jar $@ } build() { platform=$1 shift 1 rm -rf build bob --archive clean…

[zarrix]

Thanks for the help

[zarrix]

The script that is posted here allows you to create a build for various platforms (is this not included in the editor initiated builds?), but is there anyway to run (test) your program from outside the defold editor?

[dasannikov]

Some global Hotkeys to build and run from editor maybe? or some service to send commands to editor?

[Pkeod]

I think this is possible but I’ve never tried it. Maybe build with compression off, copy dmengine.exe or whatever into place and then run it with command line options?

[selimanac]

+1

Triggering Build and Hot reload on Editor

It would be nice to have a way for triggering Build and Hot reloading on Editor(not with bob). Then we can use it for 3th party IDEs