[ntp:hackers] Building NTP on Windows

Harlan Stenn stenn at ntp.org
Sun Mar 24 20:31:56 UTC 2013


"David J Taylor" writes:
> 
> What I would like to see in that section, which I do not yet know
> myself, is how to automate the process.  Presently, my steps are:
> 
> - download the .tar.gz
> - use 7-zip file manager to extract the files to a directory
> - go into the ports\winnt sub-directory and invoke MS Visual Studio Express 
>   C# variant on the .SLN file.
> - convert that .SLN file from the VS 2008 supplied to VS 2010
> - select the release rather than the debug option
> - compile, and check the log for 9 correctly built programs
> - put those compiled .EXE files into a Zip archive
> - take an MD5 signature for the Zip archive
> - update my Web page with the new version, and its signature
> - upload that archive to my Web site
> 
> It would be helpful if at least some of this could be automated,
> although I appreciate that checking for errors in the build should
> remain a manual step.

I'm happy to add scripts to the distribution that make these things
easier...

H


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