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The sequence of actions required to construct a software product or executable application, or the system which performs such actions.

Building applications is a critical part of software development. The build-process is the series of steps involved in assembling everything necessary to run your application and turning into something that can be natively executed. A build process might look like this:

  1. Create an output directory.
  2. Get latest version of source code from source control software. Also get latest version of any related files like images.
  3. Perform a full build/compilation of the source code.
  4. Create an install package.
  5. Copy install package to output directory.
  6. Logging every step.
  7. Alert developers when done.

Each individual step can be very involved. Two steps of the Joel Test are about the build-process:

Can you make a build in one step?
Do you make daily builds?

Builds are frequently automated; one of the steps of the Joel Test is the ability to perform a one-click build. Doing manual builds risks errors and has a high cost in developer sanity. Daily builds are important because they help catch errors that were checked into source control. There are many tools that can facilitate setting up automated builds like ANT/NANT.

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Why maven? What are the benefits?

What are the main benefits of using maven compared to let's say ant ? It seems to be more of a annoyance than a helpful tool. I use maven 2, with plain Eclipse Java EE (no m2eclipse), and tomcat. Supporters of maven believe that Maven lets you get…
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How can I make Visual Studio's build be very verbose?

I need to get a hold of every flag, every switch used in the build process by the Visual Studio binaries. I tried to obtain a verbose output by using vcbuild, but I wasn't able. What do I have to do to see everything performed by Visual Studio for…
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Building executable jar with maven?

I am trying to generate an executable jar for a small home project called "logmanager" using maven, just like this: How can I create an executable JAR with dependencies using Maven? I added the snippet shown there to the pom.xml, and ran mvn…
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Can a program depend on a library during compilation but not runtime?

I understand the difference between runtime and compile-time and how to differentiate between the two, but I just don't see the need to make a distinction between compile-time and runtime dependencies. What I'm choking on is this: how can a program…
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How do I put all required JAR files in a library folder inside the final JAR file with Maven?

I am using Maven in my standalone application, and I want to package all the dependencies in my JAR file inside a library folder, as mentioned in one of the answers here: How can I create an executable JAR with dependencies using Maven? I want my…
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In Maven 2, how do I know from which dependency comes a transitive dependency?

I would like to know which dependency described in my pom.xml brings a transitive dependency in my target directory. To be more precise, I have the library "poi-2.5.1-final-20040804.jar" in my WEB-INF/lib directory and I would like to know which…
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Xcode variables

In Xcode, I know that you can get variables such as PROJECT_DIR to use in some situations, such as a run script build phase. I am wondering if it's possible to get the build type (i.e., Release or Debug). Any ideas?
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Using CMake to generate Visual Studio C++ project files

I am working on an open source C++ project, for code that compiles on Linux and Windows. I use CMake to build the code on Linux. For ease of development setup and political reasons, I must stick to Visual Studio project files/editor on Windows (I…
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Maven: How to include jars, which are not available in reps into a J2EE project?

in my J2EE project I've a couple of dependencies, which are not available in any Maven repository, because they're proprietary libraries. These libraries need to be available at runtime, so that have to be copied to target/.../WEB-INF/lib ... Right…
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Ant: How to execute a command for each file in directory?

I want to execute a command from an Ant buildfile, for each file in a directory. I am looking for a platform-independent solution. How do I do this? Sure, I could write a script in some scripting language, but this would add further dependencies to…
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Why does Maven have such a bad rep?

There is a lot of talk on the internet about how Maven is bad. I have been using some features of Maven for a few years now and the most important benefit in my view is the dependency management. Maven documentation is less than adequate, but…
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How to get Visual Studio 'Publish' functionality to include files from post build event?

I am currently attempting to use Visual Studio 2010 'Publish' and MSDeploy functionality to handle my web deployment needs but have run into a roadblock with regards to customizing the package depending on my build configuration. I develop in a…
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What is obj folder generated for?

Possible Duplicate: What are the obj and bin folders (created by Visual Studio) used for? The default output path for any project is Visual studio is bin/Debug, but I have noticed that obj folder is also generated which again contains dll and pdb…
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Perl build, unit testing, code coverage: A complete working example

Most Stackoverflow answers that I have found in regards to the Perl build process and unit testing and code coverage simply point me to CPAN for the documentation there. There's absolutely nothing wrong with pointing to CPAN modules because that's…
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how to watch changes in whole directory/folder containing many sass files

How could I trace changes in whole directory containing many sass files ? I'm using the following command to watch changes in sass file: sass --watch style.scss:style.css But how to watch changes in whole directory/folder containing many sass…
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