Building

Developer Build

You need:

• Source of this repository
• Source of dotnet-packages
• Visual Studio Community 2017
• Microsoft Build Tools 2013 (v12)
• Microsoft Build Tools 2015 (v14)
• Cygwin (with additional packages: unzip, patch)

You should:

• Add C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\15.0\Bin to PATH-Variable (buildscripts need to use MSBuild.exe from this path)

Build dotnet-packages (3rd Party Libraries)

1.) Open cygwin-Konsole

2.) cd dotnet-packages (root folder)

3.) ./build.sh

4.) The libraries should now be in _build\output

Build

1.) Copy content of dotnet-packages\_build\output\dotnet46 to <path-to-repo>\packages

2.) (optional branding) Open cygwin-Konsole, execute <path-to-repo>/branding-xcp-ng/brand-to-xcp-ng.sh

2.) Open XenAdmin.sln

3.) Build and enjoy

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The information presented below may be incorrect, so handle with care 👮‍♂️

(Only for testing purposes) you also need NUnit libraries which can be obtained from http://www.nunit.org:

• nunit.framework.dll
• Moq.dll

Build with CI (Jenkins) [work in progress]

You need:

• Jenkins with some plugins: Pipline,...
• Buildnode (same environment as described in Developer Build)
• Jenkins Workspace path without spaces in pathname

Build with buildscripts [work in progress]

You need

• Windows
• wix 3.10.4-debug (https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix3/releases/download/wix3104rtm/wix310-debug.zip), put in folder ..\scratch
• wix 3.10.4-binaries (https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix3/releases/download/wix3104rtm/wix310-binaries.zip), put in folder ..\scratch
• Brandig git repo (like https://github.com/borzel/branding)

Prepare build environment

• start configure.cmd from root folder
• add cygwin path (C:\cygwin64\bin) to windows PATH variable

Startscript

Execute in cygwin terminal from workspace BUILD_NUMBER=1 mk/xenadmin-build.sh

Internal structure

1. clean build folder
2. branding (Branding/branding.sh, mk/re-branding.sh) - sets version numbers, product name and company name from branding repo
3. build
4. WIX (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Installer_XML)
5. build/sign installers (mk/build-installers.sh)
6. ...do some ressource and validators stuff...
7. prepare stuff for iso