I have a batch file that runs ant and then copies one of the files that were produced:
ant -Dproject.version=1.1.2 release published
copy /Y D:\dir1\MyJar.jar D:\dir2\MyJar.jar
When I run the batch file, ant runs successfully, but the copy statement never happens, although it will work just fine if I type it in and hit Enter after the ant task has finished.
What is going on here?
I had the same problem once and the magic call did it.
In that batch file of yours try:
call ant -Dproject.version=1.1.2 release published
copy /Y D:\dir1\MyJar.jar D:\dir2\MyJar.jar
Cannot tell you why it worked, though. Guess it's Microsoft logic.
When you call one batch file from another (which is not always clear) you're supposed to use CALL (or call), otherwise it works more like goto and doesn't return back to the caller. Is ant actually a batch file ant.bat? This should work then:
CALL ant -Dproject.version=1.1.2 release published
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I am having a Jenkins job that runs Nunit tests on remote machine.
I am using Jenkins's Workspace Cleanup Plugin pluggin (https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Workspace+Cleanup+Plugin) to clean my workspace.
the problem is that I want to task kill some process on my machine (because otherwise I could not delete the workspace - some files will be in use and threfore could not be deleted) and I want to do it before the delete action takes place (it is always the first action on the job).
I know that there is an option in the pluggin- "External Deletion Command" - but this runs the command on all the files in the workspace where as I need it to run only once (not on a the sepsific workspace files - i.e. only this command: "c:/workspace/taskill nunit")
is there a way to do so?
Thanks
If I can suggest a different approach to use an app called LockHunter which has an API to unlock and delete your workspace. It's much more "sergical" than removing a random task and hope it's the one you meant to.
You can trigger it from command line using "run before SCM" and it'll handle the deletion and unblocking of your specific workspace.
You can also use:
"cmd /c wmic /INTERACTIVE:OFF Path win32_process Where \\"CommandLine Like '%workspace%'\\" call terminate"
Where %workspace% is your current workspace. This will go over all the tasks that are currently running and check the command line path, then it'll call terminate for anything it found.
Good luck!
I'm relatively new to using build files and Ant to compile and execute from a command line so i wanted to know how it would be possible to modify the build-impl.xml file auto generated from netbeans so that after it compiles it also executes the program.
Currently when i type just "ant" in the command window where the build.xml file is listed it compiles and etc but then says
-do-jar-copylibs:
[copylibs] Nothing to copy.
[echo] To run this application from the command line without Ant, try:
[echo] java -jar "C:\Users\Eric\Documents\Word Documents\Java Test Code\NetbeansVersion\Cops\dist\Cops.jar"
I can run that command and it will run fine, but i want the program to execute by just typing ant.
The build.xml file - Pastebin
Build-impl.xml file - Pastebin
There are a couple "tasks" available in ant that you could use to accomplish this.
You can use either of these:
Java Task,
Exec Task
Those documentation pages provide examples as well. Before you go there though, you might want to start at the basic manual to get an idea of the structure of an ant build file to determine where and how you want to add this execution step in.
It feels a little "off" to me to have your build script executing the program, but I'm sure you've got a reason, so I might suggest adding a new target that does the build steps and then also runs this command to kick off the program. That way you've still got the option of running the build without running the program.
I am new to Jenkins, so my question is really simple.
I would like to run an exe and check if the output text file is as expected.
So:
Grab the artifact the SVN (OK!)
Run and exe with some command line arguments (OK!)
Check the output text file (Don't know how to do it)
Any help?
Bonnus: Instead of running an .EXE located in SVN, is there a way to build the C# .NET code to generate the release .EXE ?
You can check the contents of the output file using any scripts. I used NAnt's loadfile to load the whole file. I am sure that there will be an ANT version of loadfile task too.
http://nant.sourceforge.net/release/0.85-rc1/help/tasks/loadfile.html
Regarding the second question, you can use the MSBuild plugin to compile your code and generate the Release exe. There are parameters which you can pass to MSBuild to do it.
My ant files are already present and I am not allowed to change those for various reasons. I have created a batch file and I am writing all those ant commands in that batch file just to automate the process. The code looks something like this
1. cd abc
2. ant realclean && ant
3. cd..
4. cd pqr
5. ant realclean && ant
6. cd..
However now I have to check if the build fired on line 2 is successful then only goto line 3 otherwise exit.
I googled a bit and found %errorlevel% as one option but it is not working in my case.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
How about adding another ANT file which contains the tasks to execute the existing ANT files?
That would give you error handling without doing anything, you could reuse that file on different OSs and your CI server and the syntax would be saner than batch...
You can have ANT execute, say project.xml, with ant -f project.xml
[EDIT] You don't even have to change the existing projects: Just create a new project, assign paths to the old projects to properties in the new build.xml and then you can build the old projects from the new one.
This gives you:
A sane[*] syntax that you already know (no need to learn the ugly/buggy/handicapped rules of DOS batch programming; you did know that DOS was once named QDOS "Quick and Dirty OS", yes?)
Proper error handling
A simple way to pass arguments to the sub-builds
Cross-platform support
Useful error messages when something goes wrong
[*]: Compared to DOS...
I am using Apache Ant scripts for building a web application. I have written some targets in the build.xml file and the script is running fine. I remember using just "build" command to run ant build instead of "ant build". Can anyone tell me how is that achieved? I was a bit curious on this.
There's no built in "build" command. You could create a simple script file called "build" in the same directory that launched the ant build.
Create a text file with this as the contents:
ant build
In windows save this as a file called build.bat then you can just type build from the command line to start your build.
On unix or linux, save the file as build, then make it executable (with chmod +x build). You'll need to type ./build to get it to run.
I don't think there's a lot of value doing this to replace the simple case of ant build, but if you have to regularly run a build that has multiple targets, or need to pass in certain system variables then it could come in useful.
Maybe your are remembering typing "ant" instead of "ant build" in the past. This is possible to setup. You just need to set default attribute on the root project element in your Ant script to the name of the target you want invoked when an explicit target isn't specified.
For instance...
<project name="myproj" default="build">
...
</project>