From ab683eefbc88a6b032165bc54d3c607e3305926e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: hswick <hdswick@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 16:45:23 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Added simple mix task to compile solidity test files

---
 README.md |  2 +-
 mix.exs   | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d0bec99..17545b3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -26,5 +26,5 @@ solc --version
 
 Then if you've made changes to the example contracts you can compile them like this:
 ```
-solc -o test/examples/build --abi --bin test/examples/contracts/* --overwrite
+mix solc
 ```
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diff --git a/mix.exs b/mix.exs
index 6651813..58b48c5 100644
--- a/mix.exs
+++ b/mix.exs
@@ -56,3 +56,13 @@ defmodule ExW3.MixProject do
     ]
   end
 end
+
+defmodule Mix.Tasks.Solc do
+  use Mix.Task
+
+  @shortdoc "Runs the solc compiler to create binary and abi of all contracts. Outputs to build directory"
+  def run(_) do
+    # calling our Hello.say() function from earlier
+    Mix.Shell.IO.cmd("solc -o test/examples/build --abi --bin test/examples/contracts/* --overwrite")
+  end
+end
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