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‎May 20, 2014
05:37 PM
building product configurations in parallel
is it possible to build product configurations in parallel? I'd like to just hit the build button, but I do not want it to build each configuration in a single queue.
devstdudio has the /m switch. I'd like to do the same for installshield projects
devstdudio has the /m switch. I'd like to do the same for installshield projects
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‎May 21, 2014
01:14 PM
Do you mean through the IDE or through an automated build process?
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‎May 24, 2014
12:25 AM
I usually use iscmdbld.exe when generating releases. one execution for each product configuration defined in the releases. where I have 4 on some branches, each takes 10 min, so I'd like to execute them in parallel so that all 4 will be done in 10 minutes instead of the usual 40 minutes.
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‎May 24, 2014
12:02 PM
With regards to InstallShield, I've seen problems with temp file collisions during parallel builds. Your mileage may very especially if the ISM's are similar or not. In my case I have hundreds of merge modules and build multiple MSI's that consume many of the same features / merge modules using the same base ISM. Maybe it's fixed by now....
As for the actual act of invoking IsCmdBld multiple times in parallel... that's a function of your build automation not InstallShield. Personally I like to use the MSBuild support these days and so I get this for free like you mentioned.
As for the actual act of invoking IsCmdBld multiple times in parallel... that's a function of your build automation not InstallShield. Personally I like to use the MSBuild support these days and so I get this for free like you mentioned.
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‎May 24, 2014
12:25 PM
No, in IS2014 it is not fixed. It is not possible to build parallel projects, which use the same merge modules. It comes an error about some files, which can not be found/streamed to cab archiv.
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‎May 27, 2014
08:37 PM
well, that is what I suspected. I guess I can resort to the following:
- run the product configurations on different tfs build agents
- run as different users, so that they use a different temp directory
- set the temp directory prior to running each instance %temp%\config1, %temp%config2,....
thanks,
- run the product configurations on different tfs build agents
- run as different users, so that they use a different temp directory
- set the temp directory prior to running each instance %temp%\config1, %temp%config2,....
thanks,
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