Sidney Markowitz wrote: > Justin Mason wrote, On 8/3/07 4:18 AM: >> Doc Schneider writes: >>> I'm going to be using my WinXP Pro as a buildbot and am just now reading >>> what JM sent in a ticket on bugzilla. >>> >>> Just wanted to start a message here. >>> >>> Questions: Should the buildbot be run in a cygwin app? or using >>> something like ActivePerl? I know most of the applications have win32 >>> counterparts. ie. python and the like.... > > I no longer have the vmware images I used to use for Windows buildbots > for SpamAssassin, but I vaguely recall that I did have it working both > in straight Windows XP and with CygWin. If you can get the plain Windows > one to work that would be good, as the code and failure modes are different. > > Googling for > > buildbot windows xp > > reveals that there are buildbot slaves running under Windows using > ActivePython. The first hit I got was a discussion of running it as a > service > > http://www.stolennotebook.com/anthony/2007/01/15/buildbot-as-a-windows-xp-service-part-2/ > > You can run svn, build spamassassin, and make test on a Windows XP > platform. You can't test anything that requires spamd to run (the spamd > and most of the spamc tests) unless you set things up to do the spamc > tests using an external spamd such as running in CygWin on localhost. I > think I made sure that make test does work under plain Windows, skipping > whatever can't be tested. So it does make sense to have a Windows > buildbot slave in addition to a CygWin one. > > - sidney
ARG. I have been trying to get a buildbot slave running on ActivePerl on Win XP (Pro) but without installing cygein or something like MSVC++ it won't make things (like spamc/ some perl mods not actually available from ppg [ppg is AP's only cpan type thing] and all together it is a b*tch to build without any C tools.) But am wondering if I run the BB Slave from cygwin would that be good enough to say "this works" on Win32? Or else I'm going to have to find, again, that free c compiler I ran across somewhere but didn't bookmark. To make SA install without using Cygwin. I did bookmark that stolennotebook.com but it doesn't seem to be all that helpful. Could be just me too. 8*) -- -Doc Penguins: Do it on the ice. 8:44am up 4 days, 16:55, 17 users, load average: 0.18, 0.30, 0.37 SARE HQ http://www.rulesemporium.com/
