More issues with Windows Slaves...

2013-03-06 Thread Ross Youngblood
I have a nifty Jenkins installation that was running on a Dell Laptop, with 3 windows slaves. The hard disk on the laptop died (MBR issue), so the Laptop is being repaired. I was able to migrate the Windoze Jenkins_HOME data to my iMac, and moved the Jenkins master onto the iMac…. however I'm f

SVN & Distributed builds

2013-02-13 Thread Ross Youngblood
Howdy sports fans. I'm working with Distributed builds, and I have a interesting problem. I discovered that using SSD drives was a big help in speeding up the builds of large files (my projects involve crunching large datasets for digital IC testers). Some of my build projects are 30Gb or larger.

Stupid Windows VS6.0 C++ Jenkins Tricks (update)

2013-02-12 Thread Ross Youngblood
This is a re-post with another tidbit regarding adjusting the skip=xx parameter for different WINDOZE flavors. One note, the For users doing builds in Microsoft Visual Studio 6, you might wonder "Why do my builds fail?" Well when you start MSDEV, you normally get all kinds of include/libs set

Jenkins tricks for Windows Visual Studio 6.0 That I've found useful.

2013-02-12 Thread Ross Youngblood
Just a FYI, For users doing builds in Microsoft Visual Studio 6, you might wonder "Why do my builds fail?" Well when you start MSDEV, you normally get all kinds of include/libs setup based on a registry for visual studio, these environment variables are not set… sometimes not even by vsvcvars.bat