NAnt Build Prompter

This is a very basic script that a co-worker named Rabid made for me. I don’t know this syntax but he does for all the group policy stuff we have at work. Basically the way I had it setup to manually do nant builds was I had three seperate .bat files. That did the following:

• One for copying the build to the staging server

• One for copying the build to the deployment server

• One for doing a complete build and then copying to the staging server

It was kind of a pain to have seperate bat files because then I had to run a specific one depending on the build/deployment I wanted. So this is the script that a co-worker came up with NAnt Build Prompter

You can download it from my GoogleCode repository here : http://schambers.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Tools/clickToBuild.bat

The only thing you have to do is open the bat file, and change the path to nant.exe. The file is setup now with the following folder structure:
– trunk
–libnantnant.exe
– branches
– tags
– clickToBuild.bat
– default.build

You only have to open the file and change the path to nant.exe. Maybe there is an easier way to do this but I haven’t tried it yet. Just thought I would share this as I have found it useful. Up to this point I just had 3 separate bat files. One for each build target. This is all running on my build server that is also running CruiseControl so when I need to update the production server, I log into the build server and kick off the deployment target.

If anyone wants to see the build file I am using let me know. It’s pretty much setup as a template now that I just copy to a new project and then change the variables. I’m sure everyone probably has something similar though.