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**erinata** · January 13, 2016, 7:17am

Would it be possible to run multiple cmd in a build system???
Or I need to make a bat file (under windows) to do that?

Also, can I call a plugin command in the “cmd” part of a build system?

**28inch** · January 13, 2016, 7:30am

Hi there!

Any luck with this one?

**mstein** · October 19, 2017, 12:05pm

Same problem here. Any news?

For example for WiX I need to run
“candle $file.wix”

and

“light $file_base_name.wixobj”

to get the msi built.

Currently I use the work-around with variants:

{
	"variants": 
	[
		{
			"name": "candle",
			"cmd": "candle $file -ext WixUtilExtension"
		},
		{
			"name": "light",
			"cmd": "light $file_base_name.wixobj -ext WixUIExtension -ext WixUtilExtension -ext WixNetFxExtension -cultures:de-de"
		}
	]
}

**kingkeith** · October 19, 2017, 12:15pm

why not just use "shell_cmd": "candle \"$file.wix\" && light \"$file_base_name.wixobj\"" like you would normally from a console, and the way it’s been done in the shipped packages for years?

github.com

sublimehq/Packages/blob/3a0cf88a275ba010e654aabe8021e23c4ee9b1bd/C++/C++ Single File.sublime-build#L11


{
	"shell_cmd": "g++ \"${file}\" -o \"${file_path}/${file_base_name}\"",
	"file_regex": "^(..[^:]*):([0-9]+):?([0-9]+)?:? (.*)$",
	"working_dir": "${file_path}",
	"selector": "source.c, source.c++",


	"variants":
	[
		{
			"name": "Run",
			"shell_cmd": "g++ \"${file}\" -o \"${file_path}/${file_base_name}\" && \"${file_path}/${file_base_name}\""
		}
	]
}

**mstein** · October 19, 2017, 1:09pm

@kingkeith: good idea. Thanks.

My final solution:

{
	"working_dir": "${file_path}",
	"shell_cmd": "candle $file -ext WixUtilExtension && light $file_base_name.wixobj -ext WixUIExtension -ext WixUtilExtension -ext WixNetFxExtension -cultures:de-de"
}

Run multiple command in a build system