Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of BuildServerSetup

Timestamp:

Dec 14, 2008, 3:54:59 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

Philip Taylor

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BuildServerSetup

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+(Related to ticket #224.)
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+The current plan (subject to change based on any new information or experience):
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+ * The server runs on [http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ Amazon EC2].
+ * The server has Windows Server 2003, VC++ 2008, SVN, Perl, and nothing else installed.
+ * The server has a persistent disk with the SVN checkout.
+ * On startup, the server runs a script. The script updates SVN, builds, saves the log output somewhere, and if it was successful then it commits the new binaries.
+ * Some other server runs some kind of script that provides an authenticated web interface to (re)start the build server, and terminates it after some period of time when it's done.
+
+== Virtual machine image installation ==
+ * Start with basic Win2003 image (ami-e3698d8a, Server2003r2-i386-Win-v1.02.manifest.xml), on a Small Instance.
+ * Attach a 2GB [http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/ EBS] disk.
+ * Install [http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/ VC++ 2008 Express SP1].
+ * Install [http://www.sliksvn.com/en/download command-line SVN] 1.5.4.
+ * `svn co http://svn.wildfiregames.com/svn/ps/trunk/ e:\svn`
+ * Add some script or something into `HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run`.
+ * ...
+ * Bundle the machine into s3://...something.../...something...
+
+== Build script ==
+
+Needs to do something like:
+ * `premake --target vs2008 --outpath e:\build`
+ * `vcbuild /time /showenv /useenv /M4 /r /logfile:buildlog.txt pyrogenesis.sln "Release|Win32"`
+ * ...
+
+== EC2 ==
+Currently (December 2008) the only suitable alternatives to EC2 seem to be [http://www.flexiscale.com/ FlexiScale] and [http://www.gogrid.com/ GoGrid], but they are a bit more expensive. Since all the services provide a plain Windows environment, it should be fairly easy to transition between the services if it becomes necessary.