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Scott Castle replied to David C Black's discussion 'Sparkbuild on OS X?'

Thanks, David. We'll definitely make an announcement if an OS X version of SparkBuild becomes available.

March 1

David C Black replied to David C Black's discussion 'Sparkbuild on OS X?'

About 30%. We treat OS X as equivalent to Linux, which is true for the most part. I use X-windows, and the full GNU tool chain. Most opensource installs with the standard config/make cycle. Use of OS X is increasing.

March 1

Scott Castle replied to David C Black's discussion 'Sparkbuild on OS X?'

Hi David, We're not planning an OS X version at this time (the code is probably somewhat portable but we don't have the toolchain to build on OS X). Out of curiousity, how much of your development is actively performed on Mac? Regards, - Scott

March 1

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Sparkbuild on OS X?

I work in a company that has an equal mixture of Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Any hope of supporting OS X? It is after all a BSD derivative.

February 27

Sobin Thomas replied to Sobin Thomas's discussion 'SparkBuild installation on ubuntu'

Hi Scott The problem is resolved, i had to install the spark build as a sudo in ubuntu. thanks regards Sobin

February 23

Scott Castle replied to Sobin Thomas's discussion 'SparkBuild installation on ubuntu'

Hi Sobin, We test SparkBuild on RHEL and Ubuntu; both platforms are supported. The error message you've encountered is unusual; can you give me a little more information about your setup: - Ubuntu distro version - 32/64bit? - Anything 'special' abou…

February 23

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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.

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Sparkbuild on OS X? 3 Replies

I work in a company that has an equal mixture of Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Any hope of supporting OS X? It is after all a BSD derivative.

Started by David C Black in Feature request. Last reply by Scott Castle Mar 1.

SparkBuild installation on ubuntu 2 Replies

Hi I want to use sparkbuild on ubuntu machines. But in the technical specification of the Spark build, it is specified that it will work on RHEL. I want to know if spark build is supported on ubuntu…

Started by Sobin Thomas in Help!. Last reply by Sobin Thomas Feb 24.

SparkBuild installation on Windows Vista 4 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 9.

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.

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Participate in the SparkBuild Community Survey

Electric Cloud is always looking for feedback from our users to help guide the direction of our products. I'd like to invite everyone in the SparkBuild Community to participate in the 2010 Community Survey - let us know about how you use SparkBuild now, what works (and what doesn't) and what you'd like to see in the future.

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Thanks for your help!

Posted by Scott Castle on February 9, 2010 at 1:00pm

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

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

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

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

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

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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