Assembly3 Daily Builder Scripts

[ceremcem]

I've prepared daily build scripts for simplifying Assembly3 Workbench build process: https://github.com/ceremcem/build-freecad-asm3

TL;DR;

Build process boils down to 3 steps from scratch to running FreeCAD:

1. Create a virtual machine (or you may use your real machine if it's Debian)
2. Run the installer/updater (may take 5 minutes to an hour at best (for me) depending on source code changes and CPU power provided)
3. Run FreeCAD-Asm3

[Mark Szlazak]

I've prepared daily build scripts for simplifying Assembly3 Workbench build process: https://github.com/ceremcem/build-freecad-asm3

TL;DR;

Build process boils down to 3 steps from scratch to running FreeCAD:

• 1. Create a virtual machine (or you may use your real machine)

• 2. Run the installer/updater

• 3. Come back after 40 minutes

• 4. Run FreeCAD-Asm3

Thank you! Maybe a bit of a naive question but why 40 minutes?

[ceremcem]

why 40 minutes?

It takes that long on my machine to build everything

[Jee-Bee]

Don't know enything of your'e computer but maybe if you run ccache (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ccache) it becomes faster. about two years ago (at the moment i was able to run vm) it takes less time on my vm for compiling and most days it can't be worse then at that moment

[ceremcem]

Don't know enything of your'e computer but maybe if you run ccache (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ccache) it becomes faster. about two years ago (at the moment i was able to run vm) it takes less time on my vm for compiling and most days it can't be worse then at that moment

Rebuilding without code change takes ~2 minutes, so I assume caching mechanism works well. Building from scratch or a small code change in the core that invalidates all caches would require ~40 minutes (or hours, in low end computers or low resource virtual machines) of build process, which is I think quite normal.

I got the best results with LXC containers, which provides native speeds and full resource usage abilities.

I don't know about your setup either, but if you could try it out (either with a virtual machine or with your real machine) and share your timings, that would give some idea

[tmolteno]

Fantastic, thank you for posting these.