BuildBot
The ASCEND BuildBot is currently up and running at http://build.ascend4.org/. If you have a reliable machine that you can contribute as a build-slave, please let us know!
Setting up a MinGW-w64 buildslave
Follow the instructions for setting up a MinGW-w64 build environment. Then, broadly following these instructions, we suggest:
- install zope.interface. We used zope.interface-4.0.5.win-amd64-py2.7.exe.
- install Twisted 64-bit for Windows. We used .exe version 13.1.0.
- build and install BuildBot slave 0.8.7p1
wget https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/b/buildbot-slave/buildbot-slave-0.8.7p1.tar.gz --no-check-certificate tar zxf buildbot-slave-0.8.7p1.tar.gz cd buildbot-slave-0.8.7p1 python setup.py bdist_wininst start dist/buildbot-slave-0.8.7p1.win-amd64.exe
- Setup the buildbot:
export BBSLAVEHOME=/home/buildslave export BBSLAVENAME=name export BBSLAVEPW=password export BBHOST=build.ascend4.org export BBPORT=port number mkdir -p $BBSLAVEHOME/$BBSLAVENAME cd $BBSLAVEHOME/$BBSLAVENAME buildslave create-slave $BBSLAVEHOME/$BBSLAVENAME $BBHOST:$BBPORT $BBSLAVENAME $BBSLAVEPW
You can run the slave manually, just to test it, using
buildslave start $BBSLAVEHOME/$BBSLAVENAME
To get this running in a permanent way, however, you will want to install as a service. The suggested approach (following this guide) is:
- In the start menu, type 'Local Security Policy', right-click the resulting program icon, and run as administrator.
- In the left pane, enter 'Local Policies', then 'User Rights Assignment'. Then, in the right pane, locate 'Log on as a service' and add the buildslave user to the list.
- As an administrator, run MSYS and type
python /c/Python27/Scripts/buildbot_service.py --username .\\yourusername --password yourpassword --startup auto install
- You should see 'Service installed'.
- In the start menu, type 'Services', then, right-clicking on the found program icon, select 'run as administrator'
- Start the 'BuildBot' service. It is supposed to fail at this stage.
- In the start menu, type 'regedit', then, right-clicking on the found program icon, select 'run as administrator'
- Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Buildbot
- Right-click on the 'Buildbot' folder, click 'Permissions'. Add the user 'buildslave' and grant full permissions to that user.
- Returning to the 'Services' tool, start the 'BuildBot' service. It is supposed to fail again at this stage, but in doing so will create a new parameter set that we can now edit.
- Back in regedit, naviate to 'Buildbot' and press F5 to refresh the view. A new 'Parameters' sub-folder appears. Enter this 'Parameters' folder, then in the right pane, right-click and create new 'String value' named 'directories'. Double-click the resulting key, and enter its value as c:\mingw\msys\home\buildslave\win7-64
- TODO figure out how to set the necessary environment variables for this service, including the PATH.
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