[Buildbot-devel] Missing stdout from ShellCommand

[Marcus Lindblom]

On 2010-10-14 16:31, ariasgore at gmx.de wrote:
> Hello,
> I am using buildbot 0.8.1 and calling visual studio devenv.exe to build a project. When I call the project from command line I see the usual output that is directed into stdout, e.g
>
> Microsoft (R) Visual Studio Version 9.0.21022.8.
> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. All rights reserved.
> ...
>
> When I call the buildbot script which is configured as a shell command
> vs2008_debug_dx9_base =  ShellCommand(
> 	command=["C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\\Common7\\IDE\\devenv.exe", "Projects.sln", "/Build", "x86_Debug_DX9"],
> 	workdir=".",
> 	name="Compiling Debug DX9",
>      description="Started compiling",
>      descriptionDone="Finished compiling",
> 	haltOnFailure=True)
>
> I receive only the header buildbot generates. Can somebody tell me, why I do not see the compiling process? If a build fails, there is no indication in stdio since it looks like stdout and stderr are simply not put into stdio.
>
> I have also tried forcing
> want_stdout = 1 and want_stderr = 1, same result. No output is generated, altough expected
>
> Any hints appreciated.

devenv.exe is a GUI-exe, which doesn't print to stdout/stderr by default.

Use devenv.com instead. That's the cmd-line version that works better. 
Or, use vcbuild.exe which has slightly different options but also builds 
vcproj-files.

Cheers,
/Marcus