diff --git a/java_console/autotest/src/main/java/com/rusefi/SimulatorFunctionalTestLauncher.java b/java_console/autotest/src/main/java/com/rusefi/SimulatorFunctionalTestLauncher.java
index 3fe10cb0f6..5f1074ab4e 100644
--- a/java_console/autotest/src/main/java/com/rusefi/SimulatorFunctionalTestLauncher.java
+++ b/java_console/autotest/src/main/java/com/rusefi/SimulatorFunctionalTestLauncher.java
@@ -3,18 +3,25 @@ package com.rusefi;
 import com.rusefi.io.LinkManager;
 import com.rusefi.simulator.SimulatorFunctionalTest;
 
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
+
 /**
  * this class runs rusEFI functional tests against rusEFI simulator
  */
 public class SimulatorFunctionalTestLauncher {
     static volatile boolean isHappy;
-    public static void main(String[] args) {
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
         Thread.setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler((t, e) -> {
             e.printStackTrace();
             System.exit(66);
         });
         boolean startSimulator = args.length == 1 && args[0].equalsIgnoreCase("start");
 
+//        if (startSimulator) {
+//            buildSimulator();
+//        }
+
         long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
         FileLog.SIMULATOR_CONSOLE.start();
         FileLog.MAIN.start();
@@ -41,4 +48,10 @@ public class SimulatorFunctionalTestLauncher {
         FileLog.MAIN.logLine("Done in " + time + "secs");
         System.exit(0); // this is a safer method eliminating the issue of non-daemon threads
     }
+
+    private static void buildSimulator() throws IOException, InterruptedException {
+        Process makeProcess = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("make -j8", null, new File("../simulator"));
+        SimulatorExecHelper.dumpProcessOutput(makeProcess, null);
+        makeProcess.waitFor();
+    }
 }