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Good Examples of Build and Deployment Documentation

Hi, I'm in the middle of writing a build and deployment document for a major enterprise platform, and I would appreciate a good example to use as a template for how to structure the document. Can anyone point me towards a good example of a well written build document? It does not have to be an online document, but could also be includ...

Is make -j distcc possible to scale over 5 times?

Since distcc cannot keep states and just possible to send jobs and headers and let those servers to use only the data just sent and preprocess and compile, I think the lastest distcc has problem in scalability. In my local build environment which has appx. 10,000 c/c++ files to build, I could only make 2 times faster than not using distc...

How to reproduce bin folder in Eclipse after it is deleted?

I'm switching out of Net Beans (since Netbeans intellisense speed was too fast for my patience). However, my habit since NetBeans age driving me nut with new Eclipse. Normally, when some thing is wrong inside Netbeans auto compile mechanism, I just go to build folder located under the project root and delete it (sometimes with Unlocker),...

Preventing referenced assembly PDB and XML files copied to output

I have a Visual Studio 2008 C#/.NET 3.5 project with a post build task to ZIP the contents. However I'm finding that I'm also getting the referenced assemblies' .pdb (debug) and .xml (documentation) files in my output directory (and ZIP). For example, if MyProject.csproj references YourAssembly.dll and there are YourAssembly.xml and Yo...

Delphi Compile and Build produce different binary on same project

Hi there. In a fresh VCL application Compile and Build operation produce same binary and map file (with minor differences at the end of .exe file even if "include version information in project" option is switched off - already discussed). Map file is same bite to bite. But wen I add any third-party component the binary and map(!) fil...

Passing build parameters to .wxs file to dynamicaly build wix installers

Good day I am a student developer and I have built several installers for the company I am working with now. So I am fairly familure with WIX. We recently decided to have a Build server that auto builds our solution. It builds both debug, and release, aswell as Obfuscated(and non obfuscated) projects. And you really don't have to unders...

Weblogic 10.3 build path error.

I am trying to resolve a build path error. Which weblogic 10.3 jars contain the j2ee classes (like javax.ejb package etc.) ? ...

What is the variable signifying the TFS project name?

I am creating a Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2008 build agent for a project of mine. For the working directory, we don't use the default $(Temp)\$(BuildDefinitionPath). Instead of Temp, we use a specific folder. That folder path includes the Team Project's name. Here comes my question. Is there a variable replacement for the Team Project...

Is it possible to have a custom step run per-solution, not per-project?

I have a Visual C++ solution with several projects. I'd quite like to be able to add a step that is executed after I build the entire solution... e.g "copy *.lib ......\libs. Is this even supported? VS is mainly based around individual projects, but obviously does support solution builds. ...

Is there an easy way to generate an Ant build script from a Maven POM?

Hi there, We have a project that uses Maven as its build/dependency management tool. But our code needs to be compiled at our client's site and our client demands that we deliver build scripts written for Ant. So, we would like to keep working with Maven and automatically generate the Ant scripts when we need to deliver the code to the...

Authenticode checking slows .NET build

In other posts, e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1618596/why-are-signed-assemblies-slow-to-load/2059410#2059410 it is shown how to avoid checking of signed assemblies when an app runs in a non- or slow-connected environment, by using the generatePublisherEvidence tag in the app's config file. Good for the app users, but what ab...

Full Build, Incremental Build and Deploy within Powerbuilder

What is the difference between a Full Build, an Incremental Build and Deploy within Powerbuilder? The only difference I can see is that Deploy allows you to update the PBDs for, well, deployment. ...

CruiseControl: How to read logs from exec task

I start an external groovy script via cruisecontrol, which basically works. My problem is that if the groovy script fails I only get the "error string found" in my cruise webapp and email; its even not in the log files. The groovy script writes it output to stdout and to a logfile. How it is possible to display the output of an external...

Generate csharp project using CMake

I'm trying to generate c# project within an existing c++ CMake code base on Windows. After some search I could find just two projects that built their own csharp compilers for cmake: gdcm and kde. I tried both of them and unfortunately the first one failed to generate a c# project, instead it created vs c++ project with cs files in it....

After partioning an eclipse project in a few modules build performance degraded

The project currently has only 3 modules with following dependencies: main +-> subsystem -> shared +-> shared After partioning around 3.000 classes compilation takes 3 minutes instead of 30 seconds (before partioning). I would like to split the main project into further modules. It seems that something causes eclipse to do a full...

Refactor Ant scripts - multiple directories

I have a set of databases that are built using scripts that are run using ant. I have the scripts for each database in a separate directory. root (build.xml) - db1 (build.xml, *.sql) - db2 (build.xml, *.sql) ... The root build.xml has a target ... The build.xml in each of the subfolders is essentially the same but for the data...

What does this compiler build statement mean?

Hi everybody, I am a programming student in my second OOP class, which is taught in C++, and I am using Visual Studio 2008. I keep encountering this weird statement when I build my project in VS, my project builds fine, I would just like to know what it means. It appears every time I build my project, doesn't matter if I click rebuild...

Obtaining compiler include (and linker library) search paths for C code with JNI portably

I have a shared C library, libfoo.so, for which I'm creating a JNI interface. In order to compile the JNI interface library, libfoojni.so, compiler include search paths must be specified. For example, on Linux (using GCC) the following compiler flags are required: -I${JAVA_HOME}/include -I${JAVA_HOME}/include/linux. Unfortunately, the l...

using Genericantfile option- can it contain everything that a regular build.xml can have?

I am trying to use ant's to run same build file with contents in different directory. My genericantfile has , , etc... When I try to run the build this way I get an error Unexpected element "{}property" {antlib:org.apache.tools.ant}property Can I use , etc... in the genericantfile TIA ...

Linking to boost unit test framework with boost build

Hello, Using boost build, if I can link to a boost python library with this in my jamfile: project myProject : requirement /boost/python//boost_python ; how can I link to boost test? I have built the boost test library. I don't want to use file paths since my code is portable. Thanks...