[Buildbot-devel] Running Buildbot on Windows : is it possible without CygWin ?

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 9:24 AM, John Pye <john.pye at anu.edu.au> wrote:

> Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I am trying to run a buildbot on windows (master+slave) but without
> > success.
> > my goal is to make collective buildbot work under win32 (zc.buildout
> > integration of buildbot, see
> > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.buildbot)
> >
> > versions:
> >  - buildbot 0.7.7
> >  - twisted 8.1.0
> >  - python 2.4
>
> I haven't tried running a Master on Windows



> (why bother?)


 When the customer is under windows, we dedicate a windows server to hold
his application and a dedicated builbdot.

The configuration is generated automatically, so it is just more convenient
to have all in one place.




> . But Slave is
> fine in my experience.
>
> >
> > 1/ buildbot would not easy_install under windows. To resolve this I
> > have created an egg out of buildbot. (using setuptools bdist_egg)
> >   so it works under windows
> >
> >  - OK
>
> I have a bdist_wininst installer that works fine (one version behind,
> currently, though).
> http://ascendwiki.cheme.cmu.edu/BuildBot


Ok


> cut
>
> I think that you may need to look at explicitly setting the PATH in your
> buildsteps or similar. See the example on the wiki page above (which
> relates only to Slave, mind you).


Got it thanks,

>
>
> >
> > 4/ when i force a build the slave does a svn checkout (yepee!) but at
> > the end of the process, it doesn't ping the master
> >     and it looks like it builds forever in the wterfall.
> >   if I try to stop the buil i get a terminate process error;
> >
> > - NOT OK :(
>
> I wonder if this could be related to the way you are running your slave
> process. See the details here for info on how to run it as a standard
> Windows service -- perhaps that will help?
> http://ascendwiki.cheme.cmu.edu/BuildBot


Thanks,  will read

Cheers

>
>
> Cheers
> JP
>



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