Re: Windows buildfarm support, or lack of it

From: "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: "Kris Jurka" <books(at)ejurka(dot)com>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Windows buildfarm support, or lack of it
Date: 2006-07-16 16:15:57
Message-ID: E7F85A1B5FF8D44C8A1AF6885BC9A0E48508A8@ratbert.vale-housing.co.uk
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kris Jurka [mailto:books(at)ejurka(dot)com]
Sent: Sun 7/16/2006 3:44 PM
To: Tom Lane
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org; Dave Page
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Windows buildfarm support, or lack of it

> For my part the difficulty is scheduling. As a primarily unix user I
> understand cron, but have no idea what the windows equivalent is. For my
> cygwin buildfarm member I setup cron, but the make step failed for every
> build for unknown reasons while succeeding if not run from cron. That
> further demotivated me from scheduling mingw builds. Perhaps snake's
> maintainer could share his configuration?

I run a simple batch script that fires the run off under msys from the Windows Task Scheduler. I'll happily help out anyone who wants to get a build running.

Regards, Dave.

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