Change modes in intellij

[petern-sc]

Is there a way to change to development mode when building a project with Intellij?

I've been able to change to development mode when using the sbt console with environment variables or sbt commands but this doesn't work when doing Build > Build Project from the intellij UI.
It would be nice to be able to do this to not have to worry about unused variables or imports when developing.

[DavidGregory084]

Hi @petern-sc!

I've transferred this to sbt-tpolecat because scalac-options does not know about modes, so it belongs here.

It's an interesting question - I don't believe that IntelliJ uses sbt for builds unless you specifically configure it to delegate build actions to sbt.

As a result, it can't pick up scalac options that depend on more dynamic sbt configuration.

If you are delegating build actions to sbt, then you need to find a way to pass environment variables to sbt when building in IntelliJ.

I'm not an IntelliJ user so it's hard for me to advise how to go about doing that!

[petern-sc]

I must have gone to my wrong open tab 😅. Thanks for transferring this over