Hello! I often encounter distributions of Java applications or libraries which use Maven as their build tool. Some of them, sadly, don't provide standalone (or redistributable) jars. Is it possible to build Maven-based applications in such a way, that the build result contains all dependencies and can be redistributed to work out-of-t...
http://buildr.apache.org/ http://ant.apache.org/ http://maven.apache.org/ What does another build tool targeted at Java really get me? Is it so hard to write a plugin using Java versus writing it in Ruby? If you use Buildr over another tool, why? Side question: How many build systems does the Apache foundation need targeted at Ja...
My Java app displays its version number in a few places, so I store that as a public final variable in the app's main class. Is there any way to access that in my Ant build tasks? In the spirit of automating the build process, I'd like Ant to automatically name the zipped distributable with the current version number, but I'm not sure ho...
I've been thinking about the deployment process I am currently using, and I am wondering if there is a good way to handle branching/tagging the code which is going to be/has been released to production. At some point I want to make a branch as the release branch and make any last minute changes to the branch and release it. Then after ...
I'm looking into scons and I just want to make sure I know what the alternatives are, before I invest a chunk of brain cells into something completely different. I've been using GNU make in the past but have never been particularly happy with it. Particularly: why isn't Ant used more often with C / C++ projects? (given that there's ant ...
I'm trying to build Hello World in x64 assembly on my Leopard MacBook Pro. It assembles fine, but I get this error when I try to link it: ld: symbol dyld_stub_binding_helper not defined (usually in crt1.o/dylib1.o/bundle1.o) for inferred architecture x86_64 I loaded it with ld -o hello64 hello64.o -lc My assembler is Yasm. EDIT: As fa...
I've been working on training myself in the ways of using nAnt over the past few days, and have stumbled across an issue. During the development process, I've been using the new tools, like Entity Data Model, for database access. When you go to try to build a library/executable that contains the Edmx product, you cannot embed the requi...
I am in the process of reviewing the use of Ivy in our application. I have set up a simple configuration to pull down cobertura. <ivy-module version="2.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://ant.apache.org/ivy/schemas/ivy.xsd"> <info organisation="com" modul...
Is it possible to obtain a list all all the output files from a MSBuild project? In a simple project, I could do something like <CreateItem Include="$(OutputDir)**\*"> <Output ItemName="AllOutputs" TaskParameter="Include"/> </CreateItem> but my projects are part of a larger build, and all outputs go to a common location, I wan...
I want to set my server to automatically build my application upon commit on SVN repo, then deploy on a test/homologation server. What I planning to do: install a build tool (Nant? use MSBuild?); create a simple script and set a hook to SVN that starts the process of building and deploy. To do that, what I need to install on my serv...
I would like to accomplish two things during my build process: Run unit tests - I have a Test Project with my unit tests. I would like to run all of these tests on build and receive a notification if the build fails validation. Merge web.config files - I have 3 different environments with configuration details specific to each. I wou...
I want to use the same ant script to do a build in either my local windows environment or on our redhat build server. I have a variable 'buildDirectory' in two files (build_unix.properties & build_windows). I want to set variables depending on the environment. <osfamily property="os.family"/> <property file="./build_${os.family}.pro...
I'm building a custom Ubuntu kernel and have modified one of the source files. When I issue the build command: NOEXTRAS=1 skipabi=true skipmodule=true fakeroot debian/rules binary-insp8600 it rebuilds the debs, but none of the modified source files are rebuilt. What's up? Do I have to do a completely clean rebuild every time I modi...
I was trying to rebuild my kernel after modifying some source files and noticed the following message in the build output: II: New modules (you've been busy, wipe the poop off your nose) What is that supposed to mean? What other weirdness awaits me in the Kernel? ...
Hi, for our build process i need to know the "last changed" Revision of each file in a certain repository. Any Ideas? Kind regards, Flo ...
Hey Everyone, I am working on a security project at my university for open source software. I am trying to build freemarker from source, but I am running into some problems. Everything that I can find online says that simple running 'ant' in the root directory should build the project. The only requirement is that you have ant v1.7.0 in...
We have VS.Net solution with 20 projects in it. Occasionaly, in VS.NET, when we try to build/debug our solution, we get following error: Unknown build error, 'Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown Only way to "fix" this issue is to reopen Visual Studio and then solution build goes well, but again after some time O...
I am trying to materialize an RCP application into a workspace from scratch and I am having trouble with one single component whose project name in SVN is not same as it's plug-in id (e.g. it's Bundle-SymbolicName). At this point in time I really can not fix this issue by either renaming the project or bundle id, so I am looking for a w...
I have been looking at LESS (http://lesscss.org/) which adds variables and macro like features to CSS. This means you can define an RGB colour once somewhere, then use that variable all through your CSS. Basically, it looks like a really cool solution. However, it depends on Ruby, which is not part of my normal dev stack, so I thought I...
I once worked on a C++ project that took about an hour and a half for a full rebuild. Small edit, build, test cycles took about 5 to 10 minutes. It was an unproductive nightmare. What is the worst build times you ever had to handle? What strategies have you used to improve build times on large projects? Update: How much do you think...