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Scott Castle replied to Shrinivas Kamath M's discussion 'SparkBuild installation on Windows Vista'
Whoops, didn't see your screenshot there. I'll check with the installer team and see if they can help decode this error. A couple additional questions: - Are you running as an Administrator? (Have you tried right-clicking and choosing 'Run as Admin…
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Shrinivas Kamath M replied to Shrinivas Kamath M's discussion 'SparkBuild installation on Windows Vista'
Ahh.., I should have mentioned this. Please checkthe attachment. Its some registy access fail or some such blah...
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Scott Castle replied to Shrinivas Kamath M's discussion 'SparkBuild installation on Windows Vista'
Hi Shri, Can you describe the problem you're running into? - Scott Castle
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SparkBuild installation on Windows Vista
Hello peopleHas anyone tried sparkbuild on Windows Vista. I am facing some problem in the installation stage. Thanks Shri
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Getting Started with SparkBuild

What is SparkBuild?

SparkBuild is a make and NMAKE-compatible build tool with an intelligent build avoidance feature that dramatically reduces build time, and graphical tools to analyze and debug build results.

Download SparkBuild here:

Windows Installer (Release 1.0 build 200)

Linux x86 Installer (Release 1.0 build 200)


Release Notes for 1.0 [pdf]


SparkBuild Documentation

SparkBuild Emake Guide [pdf]
SparkBuild Insight User Guide [pdf]


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Shrinivas Kamath M

SparkBuild installation on Windows Vista 3 Replies

Hello peopleHas anyone tried sparkbuild on Windows Vista. I am facing some problem in the installation stage. Thanks Shri

Tagged: Vista

Started by Shrinivas Kamath M in General questions. Last reply by Scott Castle Feb 5.

David Ward

Environment variables are not getting passed to sub-makes (continued). 2 Replies

I did a full rebuild as well as another attempt at a subbuild. I got the same environment variable problems I had before on the subbuild. Full rebuild: W:\dward_JELProject\JEL>C:\SparkBuild\ --wi…

Started by David Ward in How do I?. Last reply by David Ward Jan 27.

David Ward

Environment variables are not getting passed to sub-makes (continued). 4 Replies

EM: The Forum's reply doesn't seem to allow attaches, so I have continued in a new thread. XML output from emke is attached. Thanks. David

Started by David Ward in How do I?. Last reply by Duc Nguyen Jan 23.

David Ward

Environment variables are not getting passed to sub-makes 5 Replies

I'm trying SparkBuild for the first time. All of our makefiles start with an include of common definitions in file $(__buildTop)/mk/top.mk.   This works for the first makefile, but when SparkBuild en…

Started by David Ward in Help!. Last reply by Eric Melski Jan 22.

Blog Posts

Scott Castle

Build Doctor, subbuilds, and free stuff!

The Build Doctor has a guest post by me talking about subbuilds. Check it out: SparkBuild – build optimisation. I've wanted to do something with his site for a long time now, so I'm really excited about the chance to post there. We're also running a giveaway for SparkBuild-branded USB drives with him; details in the article.

Posted by Scott Castle on January 14, 2010 at 11:00am

Scott Castle

Webinar on Build Avoidance with Subbuilds

On Thursday (12/17) I'll be talking about build avoidance, subbuilds, and Agile development in a webinar hosted by Agile Journal. If you're looking for more information about how subbuilds work, how they're different from other kinds of build avoidance, and how they're relevant to Agile development, you won't want to miss this!… Continue

Posted by Scott Castle on December 15, 2009 at 4:37pm

Scott Castle

Build profiling with SparkBuild Insight

Curious about where your build time is being spent? Trying to identify which components take the most time to compile? Making guesses about whether it's worth the effort to parallelize the build? SparkBuild Insight has an array of reports which can answer these profiling questions.

… Continue

Posted by Scott Castle on December 10, 2009 at 3:30pm

Scott Castle

SparkBuild release 1.0 is available

Electric Cloud and the SparkBuild team are pleased to announce the immediate availability of SparkBuild 1.0. This release supersedes all previous beta versions, and offers several improvements over release 113 beta. Installers for Win32 and Linux (x86) are available at www.sparkbuild.com

Posted by Scott Castle on December 8, 2009 at 10:19am

Scott Castle

Debugging broken builds with SparkBuild Insight: Implicit Dependency Mistakes

In the previous articles: Debugging broken builds with SparkBuild Insight: Malformed Makefiles and Debugging broken builds with SparkBuild Insight: Simple Problems we covered some basic broken-build scenarios: source code errors and broken makefiles. This installment will look at another common cause of failed builds - implicit… Continue

Posted by Scott Castle on November 18, 2009 at 10:00am

Scott Castle

Debugging broken builds with SparkBuild Insight: Malformed Makefiles

In the previous 'Debugging broken builds' article we looked at how to troubleshoot a build that failed from a source code error. In part II, we'll look at a more difficult problem: makefile-based failures.

Case Study: Malformed Makefiles

(Grab this annotation file if you'd like to look at this example in your own SparkBuild Insight:… Continue

Posted by Scott Castle on November 12, 2009 at 12:00pm

About Electric Cloud

SparkBuild is developed by Electric Cloud, Inc, and is based on technology produced for the ElectricAccelerator distributed build system and the ElectricInsight build analysis tool.

Electric Cloud was founded in 2002 by software technologists tired of seeing software development productivity negatively impacted by inefficient builds. Today, Electric Cloud is the leading provider of software production management (SPM) solutions.

You can read more about how we solve problems in build and release management, and lots of details about make, makefiles, and build performance at the Electric Cloud blog.

For more information on Electric Cloud's commercial offerings and the company, visit our website.
 
 

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