This is a quick update to my last article on Running Buildbot as a Windows XP Service. There was an interesting comment posted by jdpipe regarding the previous article . He offered a nice solution for some issues I was having with environment variables and stopping the Buildbot service. You can check out the article he wrote about it at https://pse.cheme.cmu.edu/wiki/view/Ascend/BuildBot.
He recommends using a python script instead of a batch file to ensure the build environment is setup correctly. By using a python script the service now launches pythonw.exe directly. This solves the Buildbot service issue where it’s not able to stop or restart properly as a result of being launched from a batch file. The article by jdpipe has excellent information on setting this up along with some pictures to help illustrate the process.
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dang, nice solution is a dead link. can you please post or repost content?
It looks like the article has a new home at http://ascendwiki.cheme.cmu.edu/BuildBot
it’s been a while since this was originally published, but the information here (and in the previous post) is very useful, so thanks for that!
Also, it seems the “nice solution” is missing again. Any chance an alternative source exists?
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