Sublime Text - Build and run C program

Question

So I want to make the 'Run' variant build and run the target file, not just build it. In Linux I could just do && ./$file or w/e but how can I do this in Windows?

{
    "cmd": ["gcc", "-o", "$file_base_name", "$file"],

    "variants": [

        {   
            "cmd": ["start", "cmd", "/k", "$file_base_name"],
            "shell": true,
            "name": "Run"
        }
    ]
}

Answer 1

Have you tried just doing the following?

{
    "cmd": ["gcc", "-o", "$file_base_name", "$file"],

    "variants": [

        {   
            "cmd": ["gcc", "-o", "$file_base_name", "$file", "&&", "start", "cmd", "/k", "$file_base_name"],
            "shell": true,
            "name": "Run"
        }
    ]
}

&& works the same way on the Windows cmd command line as it does in Unix/Linux shells. Unfortunately, if you're just reading out the results of your build command in the bottom pane of Sublime, && doesn't seem to work, at least on the latest build of ST3 on Win8. So, you can just fall back to a good old batch file:

@echo off
gcc -o %1 %2
%1

Save this someplace in your PATH as buildandrun.bat. Next, create a new build system:

{
    "cmd": ["buildandrun.bat", "$file_base_name", "$file"],
    "selector": "source.c"
}

and save it as %APPDATA%\Sublime Text 3\Packages\User\buildandrun.sublime-build. Select your source file in Sublime, go to Tools -> Build System and select buildandrun down at the bottom, then hit CtrlB to build.