Suggestion: Make source locations (line and column positions) reported by the compiler clickable

[hbobenicio]

ATM, the compiler outputs warnings and errors relative to source locations with the given format:

foo/bar.odin($LINENUM:$COLNUM) $MSG

I think the following format is what is generally used to get a clickable link from terminals and IDE's:

foo/bar.odin:$LINENUM:$COLNUM $MSG

at least on Linux.

As I don't own a Mac nor a Windows, I can't really say what is actually portable between most platforms or even if there is a standard.

But that's how most compilers I've worked on use to output (gcc/clang/golang for example).

Hopefully this suggestion would be an easy change and a boost on productivity (compile, check errors, goto error cycle).

[hbobenicio]

I've just discovered from reading the source code that this is actually configurable from the build script

Odin/src/build_settings.cpp

Line 991 in 4af8a64

char *token_pos_to_string(TokenPos const &pos) {

Odin/src/build_settings.cpp

Line 189 in 4af8a64

enum ErrorPosStyle {

So I tried this:

ODIN_ERROR_POS_STYLE=unix ./build_odin.sh

But it didn't changed my format strings though. Not sure if I did something wrong or something is missing. I don't know if the build script were supposed to automatically guess that I'm on linux or not

The point I bring into discussing here is if the unix format style is "universal enough" to work on all/major supported operating systems so it just becomes the default way to reference file:line:col source positions in error messages.