How to build Windows deliveries ?

1. local subversion repositories

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First, one can build local mirror of eiffelstudio and private ise repositories. It speeds up the delivery, and this way, you are not subject to network issue.

See repos/ folder. For eiffelstudio:

> cd repos
> init_eiffelstudio_mirror.bat
> svnsync_all_mirrors.bat

For ise First, you need to setup the ISEVPN to access the subversion repository at svn://svn.ise:3691/ise_svn , then

> init_ise_mirror.bat your_ise_username your_ise_password
> svnsync_all_mirrors.bat

Note, the delivery scripts are setup to use those mirrors, at this location, using file:///..../svn/eiffelstudio location for instance.

2. setup the build scripts

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in windows_deliv, you will find a new set of scripts. Please look into etc\ folder update config.btm to set the expected version, for instance

	set STUDIO_VERSION_MAJOR_MINOR=18.11

And there are a few variables to set, but it is recommended to add a new file etc\machines\%COMPUTERNAME%.btm , and set the variables specific to your machine. This way, you can switch easily from a machine to another. You can also decide in those files, to use the real subversion repositories, instead of the local mirrors.

in etc\profiles\ you can have various delivery profiles, for win64, using vc100, or vc150, ... you can decide to use one of them, by setting the environment variable ISE_BUILD_NAME to one of them (use the filename without the extension). Otherwise it will use default values for ISE_C_COMPILER* variables.

3. Requirements

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• TCC/LE (https://jpsoft.com/products/tcc-le.html) edit menu.bat to set the TCCLECMD variable.
• expected VisualStudio, to compile C Code.
• WiX: in C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Installer XML v3\bin\ see file install/package.wixproj.

4. And finally, open the wanted Visual Studio prompt and run

> menu.bat

and you can choose 1 for the full delivery, or 7 only for the GPL versions.

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Personal notes from Jocelyn:

• in set_simple_aliases.btm, see the alias share_delivery , it is called when the delivery is ready to share it on ftp, or elsewhere. The current setup is copying the file in es_build_deliv/nightly folder. On my machine, I have a symbolic link to a dropbox shared folder, so once it is ready I can access it, and I also setup an IFTTT that notifies any change in that folder, and send a message on slack.