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“jom” is a software “build” utility like “make”
http://wiki.qt.io/Jom http://www2.research.att.com/~astopen/nmake — jom is a clone of Glenn Fowler’s nmake to support the execution of multiple independent commands in parallel (“-j” …) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(software) — jom is being used in the context of Qt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_(software)#Derivatives lists nmake etc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMake — jom makes (resp. can make) use of CMake, a “cross-platform free and open-source software for managing the build process…
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Windows batch files – shell programming à la Windows resp. Microsoft
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/batch_file !!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cmd.exe http://www.robvanderwoude.com/parameters.php https://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/cmd.mspx https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490880.aspx – on cmd.exe (apparently not updated since WinXP) (same content as above) https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490890.aspx – command-line reference A-Z https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490954.aspx – command shell overview http://ss64.com/nt — “an A-Z Index of the Windows CMD command line” — very, very helpful documentation http://ss64.com/nt/if.html — “IF — conditionally perform a command” — details I “always” wanted to know…
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Apache Ant: “Unable to locate tools.jar”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Ant — the software build tool https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Development_Kit = JDK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_virtual_machine#Java_Runtime_Environment_from_Oracle = JRE tools.jar — a part of the JDK used by Ant Unable to locate tools.jar. Expected to find it in C:Program Files…Javajre…libtools.jar Do you know this message? Do you want to get rid of it? Take the JDK (downloadable) instead of the JRE (downloadable),…
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using Microsoft Visual Studio’s C++ compiler commandline-wise — vcvarsall.bat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Native_Interface#HelloWorld nice example illustrating how to properly qualify absolutely wherever possible (i.e. avoiding getting things found through PATH et al.!): SET PF=C:Program Files SET PFx86=C:Program Files (x86) SET VSINSTALLDIR=%PFx86%Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0 SET VCINSTALLDIR=%VSINSTALLDIR%VC :: Add compiler tools folder to the PATH variable. :: Do not run this too many times :: or %Path% will…
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there is a tool we are running in a Jenkins job – what about its secondary console output?
Actually the tool has 3 files it writes to continuously and sort of independently. We want the tool developer to help us to direct the primary output to Jenkins’s Console Output, but how do we introduce a secondary Console Output in Jenkins? And how would we associate the 2nd log file to the secondary Console…
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the C Shell “which” command and the Windows command line
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Which_(Unix) http://www.robvanderwoude.com/unixports.php http://www.robvanderwoude.com/files/which_xp.txt – nice XP batch version of “which“ “which” comes from the C Shell ancestry and it is not a builtin; ksh and bash have “type“
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CPAN history – edited by Neil Bowers
https://github.com/neilbowers/history-of-cpan/blob/master/history.md Very nicely made. I truely “love” CPAN.
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joke: silence is golden
As Air Force One arrives at the Heathrow Airport , President Obama strides to a warm and dignified reception from Her Majesty the Queen. They are driven in a 1934 Bentley to the edge of central London, where they change to a magnificent 17th century carriage hitched to six white horses. They continue on towards…