How to run command line steps on both OSX and Windows
We have a mix of different build agents, both OSX and Windows. Some of our builds require execution of command line steps.
Is it possible to have a single build configuration with command line build steps that will be able to execute on both agent types?
Just to give a silly example, the command 'rm -rf %some path%' will run on the OSX agent, but not on the Windows agent.
I know it is possible to duplicate the configuration and set a condition to run on a particular OS and modify the build steps per platform, but i am looking for a simpler solution.
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Hi,
maybe you could install gow (https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki) on your windows agent ?
It's a set of unix commands for windows (so 'rm -rf %some path%' will run also on your windows agent).
In case you want to use some condition you can use 'test' (test 0 -eq 0 && echo "if test is true" || echo "if test is false")
Note: it's not a unix bash; there is missing commands, some are renamed ('gfind' instead of 'find'), (if [ $toto -eq 0]; then echo "do something")
Thanks for the suggestion. i will look into that.
I thought of another solution although i am not sure it's as optimal. What if the build scripts were part of the repo? The TeamCity build process would simply invoke the relevant script (e.g: batch file / powershell on Windows, shell script on OSX).
I've seen many open source projects that have a build script at their root level, so i assume this is a common practice, although you do lose the ability of keeping the scripts outside of your repo and being able to modify them without any additional commits to source control.