IntelliJ plugin

The following contains installation, introduction, and other information about the IntelliJ plugin for saker.build.

The source code for the plugin is available on GitHub: sakerbuild/saker.build.ide.intellij.

Install via marketplace

You can install the saker.build plugin through the JetBrains plugin marketplace.

0. Open the IDE.
1. Open the File > Settings dialog.
2. Select the Plugins page.
3. On the Marketplace tab, search for saker.build, or simply saker.
4. Select and install the Saker.build system plugin.
5. Restart the IDE.

Download manually

You can download and install the plugin manually. Each version is available as a GitHub release on the releases page.

0. Download a release that you want to install.
   • Look for the file with the saker.build.ide.intellij-v<version>.jar name.
1. Open the IDE.
2. Open the File > Settings dialog.
3. Select the Plugins page.
4. Click the gear icon and select Install Plugin from Disk...

5. Select the downloaded JAR file.
6. Restart the IDE.

Creating a project

Select the File > New > Project... option, and choose the Empty Project type.

Next, select the File > Add saker.build support menu. This adds support for running saker.build part of your project.

Now you have an empty project, but no build files. You can add one through the Saker.build menu, by choosing Add new build file.

A new file with the name saker.build will be added to the root of your project.

Running a build

Continuing our example from above, let's compile some Java code.

First, create a new directory called src. Then, open the saker.build build file, and add the following to it:

saker.java.compile(src)

This will simply compile all .java source files in our src directory. (Currently it won't compile anything, as we haven't added sources yet, but running a build will succeed nonetheless.)

Let's build! We can do that in the following ways:

1. Selecting the build target to run

You can select a specific build target in the Saker.build menu:

2. Selecting the Build > Run saker.build action

The Run saker.build action will run the last build target that you've choosen for the project. You can also use the associated hotkey to run the build quickly.

If it can't determine the last build target, it will ask you which one to run.

Build console

The output of the build execution is available in the saker.build tool window. It will automatically pop up as you start a new build:

Applying project configuration