Hi Lewis,

Have you had an opportunity to review our developer documentation on setting up a development machine?

https://www.labkey.org/wiki/home/Documentation/page.view?name=build

The config.properties file is the file that your dev instance will use to create its build.xml from. That config.properties file is located under the LABKEY_ROOT/server/ directory and it relies on the properties files that are within the LABKEY_ROOT/server/configs/ subdirectory. If you go into configs, you'll see two .properties files - one called pg.properties, the other mssql.properties. The pg one is for PostgreSQL while mssql is for Microsoft SQL. Depending on which version of SQL you're using, you want to edit the appropriate file and enter in your information (e.g. Database Name, database username, database password, port number, host address, etc). So when you run ant in the server directory, you would use either "ant pick_pg" or "ant pick_mssql" to have it pick the specific properties file in the configs directory, which will then write to the config.properties file. This will then eventually create your build.xml file and labkey.xml file for your dev instance to start working.

Does this make sense?

Regards,

Jon

Hi Folks,
In the /server/configs/ directory I saw both pg.properties and mssql.properties.
I copied the former to /server, this worked.
Please see the attached log file.

Hi Lewis,

Copying the pg.properties file to the server directory and renaming it config.properties is fine, but for future we recommend you using the ant command instead. This allows you to be able to switch between different databases if you have both MS SQL and PostgreSQL databases to access or if you have multiple databases within PostgreSQL or MS SQL. I have several different properties files that are for both PostgreSQL and MS SQL that I use for testing and I end up copying one of them to my pg.properties or mssql.properties file and then running the "ant pick_pg" or "ant pick_mssql" command for it to build my labkey.xml file and point to the correct server and database.

All of this information is within our dev machine instructions here: https://www.labkey.org/wiki/home/Documentation/page.view?name=build

Regards,

Jon

Hi Jon,
Thanks for your feedback. Greatly appreciated.
Additionally, I had to set the following Ant optional configuration
export ANT_OPTS="-Xms1536m -Xmx1536m -XX:PermSize=1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=2048m"
Once that was done, everything build perfectly from trunk.
Thanks very much again.
Lewis