A meta task that compiles source files.

It simply runs the compilers registered in your project and returns a tuple with the compilation status and a list of diagnostics.

Configuration

• :compilers - compilers to run, defaults to Mix.compilers/0, which are [:yecc, :leex, :erlang, :elixir, :xref, :app].

• :consolidate_protocols - when true, runs protocol consolidation via the compile.protocols task. The default value is true.

• :build_embedded - when true, embeds all code and priv content in the _build directory instead of using symlinks.

• :build_path - the directory where build artifacts should be written to. This option is intended only for child apps within a larger umbrella application so that each child app can use the common _build directory of the parent umbrella. In a non-umbrella context, configuring this has undesirable side-effects (such as skipping some compiler checks) and should be avoided.

Compilers

To see documentation for each specific compiler, you must invoke help directly for the compiler command:

mix help compile.elixir
mix help compile.erlang

You can get a list of all compilers by running:

mix compile --list

Command line options

• --list - lists all enabled compilers
• --no-archives-check - skips checking of archives
• --no-deps-check - skips checking of dependencies
• --no-protocol-consolidation - skips protocol consolidation
• --force - forces compilation
• --return-errors - returns error status and diagnostics instead of exiting on error
• --erl-config - path to an Erlang term file that will be loaded as Mix config