Build slave

10 Steps to get a build slave working with the master at http://trac.alleg.net - this assumes u have build admin permission and can add your own platform to a build.

you need to at least do the following for the simplest recipe @ http://trac.alleg.net/build/R6-Beta - the other more involved recipes are outside the scope of this article

1) Create a folder on your slave host called C:\build

2) From C:\build> svn co http://trac.alleg.net/svn/branch/FAZR6 to the folder you just made.

3) If you named C:\build something else besides what was instructed in step 1, start over.

 You should now have C:\build\FAZR6\ with a bunch of crap in it.

4) Copy the C:\build\FAZR6\build\bitten.bat to somewhere handy on your host (like the desktop)

5) Edit it to add your slave name ex. --name stripe where it calls bitten-slave.

6) Also adjust the path to your vcvars bat if necessary (the line above)

 You should have a bat script that looks kinda like this, I bolded thae parts you probably need to change/add: 

rem #Imago <imagotrigger@gmail.com> - Runs the bitten slave on a host

:wut call "C:\Program Files '''(x86)'''\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86 call C:\Python26\Scripts\bitten-slave '''--name test0''' -f C:\build\FAZR6\update\bitten.ini -i 120 --log=C:\bitten-Allegiance.log http://trac.alleg.net/builds goto wut

7) Install Perl and the Perl modules ppm install Win32-AbsPath (for msbuild log parsing) and ppm install XML-RPC (for fail reporting) to make the recipe happy

8) Install 7-Zip to default location so your host can attach the build to trac /w less bandwisth

9) Install Python 2.6

10) Extract http://build.alleg.net/BittenSlave-0.7dev_r805-py2.6.7z and move the egg into site-packages and the scripts to C:\Python26\Scripts - this is an unmodified copy of the build from edgewall svn linked here for your convenience.