Windows Build Server

Owned by Jonas Lauritsen (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Mar 23, 2016
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Build server Windows Server 2012

  • os2indbekit-bui.Miracle.local
  • 10.7.4.241
  • Login: ad bruger 

 

Using the E drive for storing.

 

The required installation files is located in the "Downloads" folder under "mobile-ci" folder. If it needs to be done again in the feature, we can look at them og see what is required.

The path for Jenkins is: E:\mobile-ci\Jenkins

The path for Autobuild folder: E:\mobile-co\config\autobuild

 

 

Local Windows 7 machine placed in Aalborg:

  • Password - kodeord

Test project located here: C:\Users\HugeLawn\Documents\

 

Build from Command Line: 

  • C:\Users\HugeLawn\Documents\OS2_Windows_Phone>C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe OS2WP8.0.sln

 

Windows Phone 8.0 SDK can't be installed on Windows 7 - but should be able to be installed on Windows Server 2012 

  • You can install Windows Phone SDK 8.0 on computers running Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2008 R2 to use Visual Studio Team Foundation Build to build existing apps. However, you cannot develop or debug Windows Phone apps on Windows Server editions, even with the Windows Phone SDK installed. (Source: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/ff928362(v=vs.105).aspx)


For building on Jenkins with MSBuild: http://marcofranssen.nl/ci-with-jenkins-msbuild-nuget-and-git-part-4/

Setup master and slave Jenkins: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Step+by+step+guide+to+set+up+master+and+slave+machines

 

Required for building

  • Windows Phone 8.0 SDK
  • Portable Library Tools 2 - Install with command "portablelibrarytools.exe /buildmachine"
  • Windows Software Development Kit for Windows 8 - https://dev.windows.com/en-us/downloads/windows-8-sdk
  • For Windows Server 2012 you need .net framework v3.5
  • nuget
  • pscp
  • git


Restore NuGet from packages.config file in project dir

  •  Command: nuget.exe install packages.config

 

Jenkins build script located in the autobuild repo on gitlab - jenkins_build_wp.bat

  •  The path to the build.config file needs to be changed to a folder in building project - Right now we are using a dummy


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