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 is...

See also:

• http://trac.buildbot.net/wiki/RunningBuildbotOnWindows
• http://www.mereidea.com/blog/2010/09/02/buildbot-slaves-as-a-windows-service-and-adding-a-testing-framework-unittest/