deviousasti / build-bot

A zero configuration continuous build bot

build-bot

A zero configuration continuous build system as a chatbot

Receive Message -> Build -> Send Message

Why?

There are numerous CIs out there, but self-hosting one involves quite the exercise. build-bot is for you if you don't want to configure build pipelines per repository

• Don't write any YML, XML, TOML or JSON
• Detects common build methods
• Deep Git submodule tracking
• No need to configure a webserver, reverse proxy or HTTPS
• Works behind a firewall
• Run with local resources, using installed licenses of IAR, Keil...

Get it

build-bot is available on chocolatey at chocolatey.org/packages/build-bot/

cinst build-bot -y

Alternatively download the package, and unzip.

Set the environment variables

BOT_SLACK_API_TOKEN - Bot User OAuth Access Token. This can be found in the Settings > Install App

If you don't already have a slack app, create one here. Add a bot user. For more information see: bot users

BOT_WORKSPACE - The directory to use as a workspace All repositories in this folder will be tracked

Working

build-bot listens on slack channels or DMs for any repository urls being mentioned. It then figures out which all sources depend on the repositories being mentioned, either directly or as submodules. It then runs the corresponding build action.

There are a few commands to interact with the bot. Type help for a list of commands.

Build actions

build-bot executes actions in the root directory of a repository. The first command line argument will be build configuration. It looks for any of the following:

• Powershell Looks for build.ps1

    param($configuration = "none")
  

• Bash Looks for build.sh

    configuration = $1
  

• Batch Looks for build.bat

    set configuration=%1
  

• MSBuild Looks for *.sln

• Make Looks for Makefile

• FAKE Looks for build.fsx

• CMake Looks for CMakeLists.txt

• Ninja Looks for build.ninja

• PlatformIO Looks for platformio.ini

• Gulp Looks for gulpfile.js