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Jenkins perforce triggered build on windows?

I feel totally in the dark, and hope you guys can help.

So I have a jenkins server setup connect to p4v and everything running smoothly. I can trigger the builds on jenkins manually without any problems.

Now however I'd like to setup so Jenkins (using the perforce plugin) acually polls from perforce everytime I submit something new in a specific folder.

This seems fairly straightforward running on linux, just adding a script file in perforce and a perforce trigger to run that file using curl to send a message to jenkins to start the build.

However i'm running windows, and I dont find any information about how to solve this particular problem on windows. Anyone, to help?

The main problem seems to be that all tutorials I find on this uses a .sh script which isnt run in windows, I wonder if there is some other way to do this in windows?

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I managed to solve this by using the following Jenkins plugin: https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Build+Token+Trigger+Plugin

and curl: https://curl.haxx.se/

If someone else has the same issue here is the step by step process I went through to set it up on Windows.

  1. In your Jenkins project, enable: Trigger builds remotely (e.g., from scripts)
  2. Enter an Authentication Token, can be anything, ex: buildCode
  3. On the command line as p4 admin enter: p4 triggers
  4. In the trigger, file go to the bottom
  5. Enter the actual p4 trigger: SomeTriggerName change-commit //DepotLocationToTriggerOn/... %//DepotLocationOfScriptToBeTriggered/trigger.bat%

Observe: When the batch file to be run in the trigger is in a depot path it must be surrounded by %

  1. Submit the trigger.bat to p4 in the choosen location. The batch file need to contain the following code C:\curl-7.60.0-win64-mingw\bin\curl.exe -u userID:APIToken JenkinsIP/job/TestJob/build?token=buildCode

Curl must be in that specific folder on the p4v server machine.

The userID and APIToken is found by going to the user drop down and enter Configure, then clicking API Token.

Hope this might help someone else with a similar problem :).

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