We have several independent builds (each independent build is a multi-project build). The main build scripts become quite big as we have a set of common tasks reused by subprojects as well as there is a lot of repeation between indepedent builds. What we are looking for is: A way to split main build file into smaller files A way to reu...
In some of my Visual C++ project files I would like to specify the path to a rule file using an environment variable or macro. I have tried editing the ToolFile element with a text editor: <ToolFile RelativePath="$(SolutionDir)\build\tao_idl.rules" /> But Visual Studio complains that it can't find C:\Path\to\ProjectFile\$(Sol...
Do you have some predefined set of targets which all build.xml files you create contain? For example, a lot of ant manuals suggest the following list of targets: init clean compile build jar test javadoc dist deploy webapp What is the most large build file you met in your life? How many targets did it have and what are they? How ofte...
Are there any good reasons to modify your projects build output path from its default of "bin\debug"? Is there any benefit to pointing all your projects within a solution to a common build output location? ...
I am attempting to convince my colleagues to start using a build server and automated building for our Silverlight application. I have justified it on the grounds that we will catch integration errors more quickly, and will also always have a working dev copy of the system with the latest changes. But some still don't get it. What are ...
I have a custom script step in my build process that zips the executable. However this is executing before the executable is signed which is pretty useless. Is there a way to zip the build output after the code is signed, within the Xcode build process. I can certainly do it externally if i need to, but I'd like to make it part of my Xc...
I'm working on a product which relies on several different projects each hosted in its own Git repository. When a release is made, it would be ideal for us to consistently tag every project that is involved in building the product - this includes the core code, libraries and build tools. Is there an obvious and sensible way to tag all ...
Hi, I have a multi module web project. Four modules of the project are packaged as jar and added as dependency to the fifth module, which is packaged as war. When it is time to deploy the application i just run package on the war project and my war is created with all the dependencies. Now there is a problem. One of the my module hav...
Sherlog is an OSGi-based log analyzer, if I import this project as an workspace snapshot I receive lot's of projects in my workspace, but I would prefere to have them as subprojects in a project. The other option would be to checkout from svn, but then I face other problems (I don't know how to setup the dependencies for automatically...
We have a series of scripts that are used when building Apache. Specifically these scripts are used to: patch the vanilla source code, patch in customer specific functionality, build and install the Apache server, build customer specific modules, and create a custom install tarball ready for eventual deployment. N.B. The deployment o...
It is possible for me to build my own Interpreter that could then be transformed into a compiler? If yes, how do I go about building it? ...
HI, I have a custom build application which I use to build solutions using a console application using command line and this will run a set of commands such as compile, download source files, deploy etc. However I also want to provide debug functionality for running a specific set of commands only rather than a full build. Any suggestion...
I just created an iPhone app and am having friends try it out, but it seems like there's a lot of stuff that needs 'management' in order to have efficient development/test cycles. There are also a bunch of things which are only on my machine (the Keychain and my test cert that I use to create the app/provisioning profiles) which other de...
Secondary questions are How do we best utilize SCM in the build process? How are code files labed and branched? Should we the .csproj and .sln files for build? How flexible are these when deploying to several environments? I know these are msbuild files. But as we add new files, this can become a bottlenect of updating and maintaining...
Does Hudson support deploying builds based on repository labels? ...
Sometimes I want to build Python or GCC from scratch just for fun, but I can't parse the errors I get, or don't understand statements like "libtool link error # XYZ". What are some tricks that unix/systems gurus use to compile software of this size from scratch? Of course I already do things like read config.log (if there is one), googl...
All I am looking for the best free set of tools to be used in a MS Based build process. Checkout, Build, Package, Test, Deploy, etc. I know this question has been asked before but it was over 2 years ago, and in our world that is an eternity. I am looking to develop a pattern that is easily adapted to similar projects. Almost like a t...
I am going to build a Mac application written in Obj-C with Xcode. For argument's sake let's say it will have 10 optional features. I need a way to enable or disable those features to create custom builds of the application. These builds would be automated (most likely through the Mac OS X Terminal) so I would need a way to state which o...
Situation I have about 400 csproj files using project references. About 3 of those a separate team wants to fork and incorporate into a standalone app. I branched the 3 projects of interest, and because the separate team uses a diff SVN repo I used svn externals to pull in these projects into the folder of the standalone app. Obvious...
I'm using PMEase QuickBuild to perform automated builds of our Maven2 projects and a nightly sanity test to ensure nothing is broken. The test needs to untar packages which are created by the automated Maven2 projects. The problem is that the package names change frequently due to project versions being incremented all the time. Does a...