[Buildbot-devel] Alternative shell on Windows slaves

[A.T.Hofkamp]

Gianluca Sforna wrote:
> I am trying to deploy a buildbot slave in Windows, and I am facing this problem:
> our build system (using the MinGW toolchain) is currently based upon some shell
> scripts which are run from a Makefile.
> This is working flawlessly in a msys shell, but fails when tried in a buildslave
> because the shell invoked is cmd.exe; do you think is there a (easy?) way to
> change the shell for running commands on the slaves?

I am not a Windows user, but I would expect that explicitly mentioning the 
shell you want to use should work, ie instead of

x: y
    myscript

do

x: y
    myshell myscript

Albert