build-automation

Am trying to run a Batch file in Post build event in Visual studio. Referred Can we execute a .bat file in post build event command line in visual studio? for reference. When i post the line xcopy "$(ProjectDir)bin" "$(SolutionDir)Deploy\bin" /S in postbuild am getting the expected result Same line i put in bat and tried calling call "$(SolutionDir)\Deploy.bat" or call "Physical path\deploy.bat" Am getting excited with code 1. What am i doing wrong here ? Can i specify macros inside batch file ? Thanks You are getting a VS error because it returned an exit code that is not 0. This does not

I am trying to write a shell script that will install all of our development tools & dependencies onto a clean OSX machine. Does anybody know the best approach to automate the installation of Xcode? I am doing this to: Document the development environment. Speed up the on-boarding process for new developers. Follow the automate-everything principle. TrinitronX Fully Automated XCode Installation First, login to the Apple Developer Downloads Site and get the version of XCode.dmg that works for your version of OSX. You might want to grab a couple versions to support the different OSX platforms (e

I am looking at PreMake/CMake for the moment. However, I fail to see how this could be used in an entire cross-platform build workflow. Indeed, it generates makefiles (or solutions). Then, how do you actually build those solutions on each targeted platforms? Do you have to maintain one build script per target (like .sh or .bat file)? This would defeat the purpose of using a tool like premake/CMake in the first place. A link to a tutorial showing all the process from coding to final built product using premake would be great. Thanks for any help. Our main development is also done in C++. We use

I'm trying to automate a program I made with a test suite via a .cmd file. I can get the program that I ran's return code via %errorlevel%. My program has certain return codes for each type of error. For example: 1 - means failed for such and such a reason 2 - means failed for some other reason ... echo FAILED: Test case failed, error level: %errorlevel% >> TestSuite1Log.txt Instead I'd like to somehow say: echo FAILED: Test case failed, error reason: lookupError(%errorlevel%) >> TestSuite1Log.txt Is this possible with a .bat file? Or do I have to move to a scripting language like python/perl?

Background : My team is made up of 3 fairly inexperienced developers. We are developing in-house software for our company. Currently we have a number of smaller and separate solutions. Many of these are interdependent. Currently these depencies are made by referencing the output dll's in the respective release-folder. Updates are pushed around by manually rebuilding dependent solutions. Example: Solution A uses features of solution B. The connection is made having Solution A referencing ...\Release\B.dll . Changes to B propagates by building solution B, then building solution A and so forth.

When you are monitoring the TFS build from Visual Studio (2008 or 2005), you can see where it is up to. The issue is that I have some Post-Build custom steps I would like the developer to be able to see directly throught the UI. Those steps take some times and we can also get a "timing" of the build step. Any idea how to have it displayed? This is the pattern that I normally use for adding steps to the build report in TFS 2008. (See http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/buildwallboard/ for the full example that I usually use in my Team Build talks) Basically, the magic is that there is a custom task