Autobuild Config

So you want to set up an autobuild site? This is how our current nightly autobuild is configured.

Requirements

• Maven
• Ant
• Java SDK
• SVN
• Continuum
• Putty

Assumptions

• It is assumed that you have a working build environment as detailed in Building_PCGen and can run SVN from the command line.
• Putty should be in your path

Steps

1. Download and install Continuum 1.1
2. Configure the email settings as noted in the install docs
3. Start Continuum and go to the default page - http://localhost:8080/continuum
4. Create an admin user and then login
5. Set the config options as appropriate
6. Add Project - Maven 1.x
7. Upload the project.xml from the pcgen directory and click Add
8. Continuum will download the project
9. Create a new schedule for the nightly build
10. Add a new build definition. The goal should be clean:clean jar pcgen:package site:deploy and uses the nightly schedule
11. Create a build.properties file as listed below
12. Once the download has completed, manually start the build to test it

Build Properties File

You will need a build.properties file in your home directory (usually C:\Documents and Settings\username in Windows) with the following contents:

maven.username=sfuserid
maven.password=sfpassword
maven.scp.executable=pscp
maven.ssh.executable=plink

Troubleshooting

• SourceForge's SVN seems to drop out regularly. As a result you may need to coax the initial download from SVN along manually. You can do this by opening a shell or command window in the project working directory and running svn update
• If things seem to have paused or are not working, check the wrapper.log in the logs folder.
• If you get an error saying the working directory is locked, open a shell or command window in the project working directory and run svn cleanup