This evening I finished all the house cleaning tasks that needed to be done for the Magical Mayhem project to begin. The repository is in place, and the directory structure setup. Getting the documentation onto the control server brought everything up to revision 5, which is fairly good for the amount of work that has been done so far. Setting up the initial build file was pretty easy especially using the Microsoft development environment.

To automate the building process I used the BuildIT software, found at http://www.coderanger.com/products/buildit/.

This software is incredibly easy to use and can be setup to schedule more then just build tasks. I set up the script to update the directories under version control, and then perform the build. The build results are then sent to my email address so I can see the result after the build completes. This allows all committed changes to be built every night.

Now I will begin the technical specification and implementation of the Kernel system. This is where the exciting part of the software begins because I get to start writing some code. I will blog updates and screen shots once I’ve made progress on the system, until then.

Cheers!
Noxy