Re: automated builds?

[Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>]

Magnus Hagander wrote:

> > Is everyone still building interactively? I'm looking for nice ways to 
> > automate building on Windows without any human action 
> > required, as part of the buildfarm project. 
> >    
>
> Not sure what you mean by interactively. A shellscript that does
> distclean/configure/make qualify as non-interactive? If so....
>
> Getting it in with the buildfarm would be great though ;-)
>  

The buildfarm is designed to run from cron or a similar task scheduler 
... that's what I mean by non-interactive :-)

>  
>
> > Ideas on how to do this nicely for Windows 
> > would be appreciated. Can one run the MSys shell without it 
> > firing up an emulated xterm?
> >    
>
> Certainly. Just start x:\msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe. To get the adjusted paths
> (if you want ls and such tools), run
> x:\msys\1.0\bin\sh --login -i
>
> (msys.bat will actually do this if it doesn't find rxvt..)
>
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>
>  

So maybe I can schedule a task like buildfarm.bat which would contain this?

 cd c:\msys\1.0\bin
 start sh --login -c 'cd /home/buildfarm && ./run_build.pl'

(I'll also need to see about file locking on Windows - does standard 
Windows perl do non-blocking flock?)

cheers

andrew