Comments on: Running a x64 build server. Challenges overcome.

By: Simone Busoli

Simone Busoli — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:45:02 +0000

Well, you will still need to build it twice, right? Once for 32 bit and once for 64 bit.

By: erichexter

erichexter — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:06:26 +0000

@Simone & Davy

I integrated ncover today and I did the corflags trick on ncover.console.exe and nunit-console.exe I was able to get everything working nice and smoothly… except for the fact that I now know the health of our source code… Now comes the real work. Bumping up the code coverage in areas of the code base.

By: Simone Busoli

Simone Busoli — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:05:37 +0000

Same issue with NCover the free version not supporting 64 bit. We had to run our tests twice, using the x86 version of NUnit console on code compiled for x86 in the second run just to be able to get code coverage. This means our builds take twice the time they normally would. Have you found any workarounds for this?

By: Davy Brion

Davy Brion — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:22:53 +0000

another issue we had when we moved to a 64 bit build server was that NCover doesn’t work on a 64 bit machine. At least not the latest free versions. The newer (non-free) versions do support 64 bit though…