[Buildbot-devel] BuildBot on Windows

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

I'm trying to set up a build slave on a Windows system (Win2K SP4).  I'm not a 
"Windows guy", so this is a bit of an adventure.  Anyway, I have a couple of 
questions.  I'm using buildbot 0.5.0 and Twisted 1.3.0.

First, the default reactor seems to be wrong wien I start up twistd.  When the 
slave tries to spawn a process, I get an exception:

exceptions.NotImplementedError: process only available in this reactor on 
POSIX, use win32eventreactor on Windows

Using --reactor win32 on the twistd command line seems to get past this.  Is 
there any way to set the reactor when running mktap?

Second, after I had the right reactor, I got an error try to run Subversion:

  File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\twisted\internet\win32eventreactor.py", 
line 296, in __init__
    self.hProcess, hThread, dwPid, dwTid = win32process.CreateProcess(None, 
cmdline, None, None, 1, 0, environment, path, StartupInfo)
pywintypes.error: (2, 'CreateProcess', 'The system cannot find the file 
specified.')

I'm guessing this is looking for the "svn" executable, but it's not clear.  
How does this normally get done on Windows?

Thanks!


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at acm.org>