Or, actually establishing a build process when there isn't much of one in place to begin with. Currently, that's pretty much the situation my group faces. We do web-app development primarily (but no desktop development at this time). Software deployments are ugly and unwieldy even with our modest apps, and we've had far too many issue...
We've embedded an OSGi runtime (Equinox) into out custom client-server application to facilitate plugin development and so far things are going great. We've been using Eclipse to build plugins due to the built-in manifest editor, dependency management, and export wizard. Using Eclipse to manager builds isn't very conducive to continuous ...
What is the difference between Build Solution and Batch Build in Visual Studio 2008? ...
On Mac OS X 10.5 I downloaded the latest version of Apache 2.2.9. After the usual configure, make, make install dance I had a build of apache without mod_rewrite. This wasn't statically linked and the module was not built in the /modules folder either. I had to do the following to build Apache and mod_rewrite: ./configure --prefix=/usr...
I try to externalize all strings (and other constants) used in any application I write, for many reasons that are probably second-nature to most stack-overflowers, but one thing I would like to have is the ability to automate spell checking of any user-visible strings. This poses a couple problems: Not all strings are user-visible, an...
In the build log I'd like to the start and end time of each project's compilation. Is there any way to get VS to do this? ...
There seem to be two rival Eclipse plugins for integrating with Maven: m2Eclipse and q4e. Has anyone recently evaluated or used these plugins? Why would I choose one or the other? ...
OK, so we all know the daily build is the heart beat of a project, but whats the single best way of automating it? We have perl scripts wrapping our pipeline which includes ClearCase, VS2005 (C++), Intel FORTRAN, Inno setup. We use cron jobs on UNIX to schedule the build, and host a simple Apache web server to view and monitor the buil...
I'm working on VS 2005 and something has gone wrong on my machine. Suddenly, out of the blue, I can no longer build deployment files. The build message is: ERROR: An error occurred generating a bootstrapper: Invalid syntax. ERROR: General failure building bootstrapper ERROR: Unrecoverable build error A quick Google search brings up t...
Our team is setting up nightly and continuous integration builds. We own Team Foundation Server and could use Team Foundation Build. I'm more familiar with CC.Net and lean that way but management sees all the money spent on TFS and wants to use it. Some things I like better about CC.Net is the flexibility of notifications as well as t...
I'm setting yup a Greenfield (yeeea!) web application just now was wondering how other people first setup their project with regards to automated/CI build? I generally follow this: Create SVN Repository with basic layout (trunk, braches, lib, etc.) Create basic solution structure (core, ui, tests) Create a basic test that fails Copy N...
How would you manually trigger additional team builds from a team build? For example, when we were in CC.Net other builds would trigger if certain builds were successful. The second build could either be projects that use this component or additional, long running test libraries for the same component. ...
Our QA team wants to focus their testing based on what EXEs and DLLs have actually changed between builds. We have a nice svn change report, but the relationship between source and changed binaries isn't always obvious. The builds we're comparing are always full clean builds, so we can't use file system timestamps. I'm looking for t...
I'm following instructions on how to create a new build type in TFS, and it says to: In team explorer, select the project you want to create a new build type on the build menu, select new team build type My build menu doesn't have that option, it has: Queue new build New build definition Manage build agents, and Manage build quali...
Hi, My team foundation is setup to use port 8080, when I am creating a new build agent it defaults to port 9191. Which one should I use? I am getting an error when I try and run my build, it says the build agent was unreachable. I created a share on my drive c:\tfsbuilds, and I added the TFSService account and gave it full rights. I...
I currently have a website with three builds: development, staging and production. Each of those has it's own MySQL database instance. Each of the instances has different data in it which should not change (orders). My question is, if I made changes to the structure of the development database, is there an easy way to propogate those ch...
If this is answered somewhere else, kindly smack me and point me in the right direction. I'm brand new to Maven and trying to wrap my head around how to use it with my projects. I've got two top level projects, one a Swing app, the other is a set of Web Services. They both depend on the same in-house jar. What are good ways to set up...
How can I build an ASP.NET web application from the command line? ...
Does TFS offer a way to save, track, and later redeploy builds by build number, or can you only deploy .dlls compiled from the current codebase? I'm looking for functionality similar to what you find in Changeman DS. ...
Hi all! I'm new to Qt Creator and I have several questions regarding multiple build configurations. A side note: I have the QtCreator 1.3.1 installed on my Linux machine. I need to have two configurations in my Qt Creator project. The thing is that these aren't simply debug and release but are based on the target architecture - x86 o...