Implement Travis CI Build

[jwood803]

After looking at a few other projects here on GitHub I've noticed that they were able to find a way to use Travis CI with .NET projects. After a bit of searching it seems there is a way to implement this.

I can definitely take a look at implementing this with F# and C#, but I'll admit I've never messed with these kinds of builds before.

[kytrinyx]

It sounds like you know more about it than I do at this point :-)

This would be great if you can get it working. If not, don't sweat it!

[jwood803]

I'll do my best, but I've never messed with it before. I'm sure I may ask tons of questions somewhere. :P

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From: "Katrina Owen" [email protected]
Sent: ‎7/‎6/‎2014 11:40 AM
To: "exercism/xfsharp" [email protected]
Cc: "Jon" [email protected]
Subject: Re: [xfsharp] Implement Travis CI Build (#13)

It sounds like you know more about it than I do at this point :-)
This would be great if you can get it working. If not, don't sweat it!
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[jwood803]

I think AppVeyor would be a good start with this since it directly supports .NET. If that's good, I'll work on Travis to get it going with Mono.

[kytrinyx]

Cool, thanks for the update.

[jwood803]

No problem! It seems like this should work. I'm pretty sure I can at least make sure everything compiles but I want to see if I can get all the tests run as well.

[ErikSchierboom]

As far as I can tell, the Travis build works nicely. So perhaps this issue can be closed?

[jwood803]

I was hoping to add FAKE to it so it can actually build and run the tests. Unfortunately, I haven't gotten too far with it 😞

[ErikSchierboom]

@jwood803 Have you consider using AppVeyor?

[jwood803]

I've started to :}

Maybe I should pick this back up. Would be great to learn more on FAKE.

[ErikSchierboom]

Cool, appveyor is a really nice tool. FAKE is something I wanted to get to learn to for a long time. Might look into it soon.

[ErikSchierboom]

@jwood803 I've been looking into FAKE lately, and I think I can be of assistance here. The only thing is that FAKE expects a project or solution file as far as I can tell, and we don't have one. Should we create one?

[jwood803]

Awesome! I might still have a branch there with my changes so far.

I was attempting to compile the files directly since FAKE exposes the F# compiler. You have any thoughts on that approach?

On Jan 24, 2016, at 7:28 AM, Erik Schierboom [email protected] wrote:

@jwood803 I've been looking into FAKE lately, and I think I can be of assistance here. The only thing is that FAKE expects a project or solution file as far as I can tell, and we don't have one. Should we create one?

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[ErikSchierboom]

I haven't looked into that yet. Do you have any sample code?

[jwood803]

Not complete at all but here's what I've started on - https://github.com/jwood803/xfsharp/blob/build/build.fsx

On Jan 24, 2016, at 11:21 AM, Erik Schierboom [email protected] wrote:

I haven't looked into that yet. Do you have any sample code?

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[ErikSchierboom]

Thanks, I'll see if I can get something working.

[jwood803]

Awesome! I'll be glad to help, as well, if anything comes up.

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Thanks, I'll see if I can get something working.

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[ErikSchierboom]

I managed to get something working! You can find the code in my fake-testing branch.

Here is how it works:

• You execute the build using build.ps1 (once that is done, I'll work on a shell version).
• The build.sh1 file uses FAKE to execute build.fsx

The build script does the following things, in order:

• Clean the build directory (defaults to "./build").
• Copies the exercises directory to the build directory.
• The copied .fs files in the build directory are modified to strip any Ignore attributes. Otherwise most tests would not run.
• Use the F# compiler service to create a DLL from the modified .fs files in the build directory.
• Use the NUnit 3 console runner to run the tests (the NUnit 2 console runner failed).

And that's it! All tests are then run (they all pass by the way):

Now what is left is to decide are some details. For example, do we want the .ps1 script to download any (NuGet) dependencies (like NUnit, the NUnit console runner and FAKE)? At the moment, I've included the dependencies in the repository, but that could be left out of course. And do we also want to download NuGet itself from the build script?

[jwood803]

@ErikSchierboom That's awesome! Looks like you did much better than I did. :]

Usually dependencies are left out and the .sh or .ps script will redownload if they aren't found using NuGet or Paket.

[ErikSchierboom]

@jwood803 Okay, I'll modify the script to download ll dependencies then.

[ErikSchierboom]

@jwood803 I've updated the script to download the dependencies, added a UNIX bash script and submitted it as a PR. Could you check if things work as you expect?

[jwood803]

Awesome! I'll check it out over the next day or two. I also don't see why we can't do the same in the C# repository. I believe FAKE can use the C# compiler, as well.

[ErikSchierboom]

Well, I already searched for that but I could not find anything about Roslyn. Maybe that would require us to write a FAKE plugin?

[jwood803]

The CscHelper wouldn't work? Granted, I'm just speculating and haven't used it.

[ErikSchierboom]

Whoops! I totally missed that. I was searching for Roslyn and came up empty. This looks promising! I'll be looking at that later.

[ErikSchierboom]

This is fixed by PR #55.

[jwood803]

Heh, @ErikSchierboom I just saw this was just pushed :p

https://github.com/fsharp/FAKE/blob/master/src/app/FakeLib/FscHelper.fs

[ErikSchierboom]

@jwood803 Yes, the FscHelper module is what I use in my FAKE script. I'm very happy everything works :)

[jwood803]

Nice! It must have just been updated. I think I saw the last commit to it was around 24 hours ago from now.

[ErikSchierboom]

@jwood803 Indeed. Next up is checking to see if I can get something to work for the C# track.