Buckminster/UserSeries

Creating Build Systems with Buckminster

Welcome to a series of pages on using Buckminster to create your build system, and hopefully helps to streamline your process of building and producing software products.

In these pages we will be covering the following topics

Part 1: Getting Started with Buckminster. Covering some of the key areas of Buckminster, why you would use it and what you need to install in order to use it.

Part 2: Looking at a really simple case study. Take a very simple example of a plugin and see what's involved in building it. A look at what files you need to create and suggested repository structure.

Part 3: Advanced Topics. Cspecs and Cspexs, what are they and why you will need them. This is about building stuff that's a little more complicated than our earlier use case.

Part 4: Getting your build automated. Kicking off builds using ant, Managing the platforms, Running tests.

Part 5: Sharing the Load. How this will impact on the source code developers, how to avoid becoming the expert, Maintenance of your build system.

Part 6: Advanced Concepts. Thomas's tips 'n' tricks page.