Forward search does not work if building with separate outdir and auxdir about texlab HOT 11 CLOSED

@haoming-li-ling Have you tried setting texlab.build.pdfDirectory to the same value as the outdir passed to latexmk?

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Ah, didn't see that option. However, with the following, forward search still doesn't work:

            auxDirectory = "./output",
            pdfDirectory = ".",
            build = {
              args = {
                "-lualatex",
                "-interaction=nonstopmode",
                "-synctex=1",
                "-auxdir=./output",
                "-outdir=.",
                "%f",
              },

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Can you try adding an empty .texlabroot file to the directory containing the main TeX file? Maybe, the project detection isn't working here (see https://github.com/latex-lsp/texlab/wiki/Project-Detection)

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I have the same issue. I have set auxdir to equal texlab.build.auxDirectory and the same for outdir, texlab.build.logDirectory and texlab.build.pdfDirectory, according to the wiki. Here are the relevant settings:

auxDirectory = ".aux/",
logDirectory = ".out/",
pdfDirectory = ".out/",
build = {
	args = {
		"-pdf",
		"-auxdir=./.aux",
		"-outdir=./.out",
		"-interaction=nonstopmode",
		"-synctex=1",
		"%f",
	},
},

TexlabForward just errors with Search error. When all the directories are the same, everything works as expected.

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@joedavid0
I think there is something wrong with your settings. It should be

build = {
        auxDirectory = ".aux/",
        logDirectory = ".out/",
        pdfDirectory = ".out/",
	args = {
		"-pdf",
		"-auxdir=./.aux",
		"-outdir=./.out",
		"-interaction=nonstopmode",
		"-synctex=1",
		"%f",
	},
},

Can you try again with these settings, please?

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Can you try again with these settings, please?

You're right, I missed that auxDirectory was moved under build. However, the issue still persists.
Texlab seems to look for the PDF in the project root, i.e. when I manually copy the PDF to ./, Texlab opens it there.

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@joedavid0 This might be a problem with the root directory detection. Can you try adding an empty .texlabroot file to the project? Then, it should look roughly like this:

<project folder>
   - .texlabroot
   - document.tex
   - .aux
       - document.aux
   - .out
       - document.log
       - document.pdf

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Still the same problem

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@joedavid0 Can you try running #988 and post the additional log statements (they start with DEBUG - [FwdSearch])? These should be helpful to find out why the server looks into the wrong directory.

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Ok this is kind embarrassing, but the error was on my part. The PR didn't have the issue, so I checked when the changes to config were introduced. Then I noticed that the version of Texlab on Arch Linux is surprisingly very outdated and doesn't have the new options yet... so that was the issue.

Sorry for wasting your time

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