Windows Jenkins Slave and ssh-agent

Question

I have a master (Ubuntu) and a slave (Mac) and build is working fine. Now, I need to add a Windows 7 slave. The problem is that I use the ssh-agent plugin and it requires special tomcat-related installation: http://tomcat.apache.org/native-doc/

In particular, it is required to build/install APR. My problem is that I cannot open the solution file because it seems outdated. Any idea how I could do that?

Answer 1

I suggest to run Jenkins slave on Windows through Java Web Start (the easy way for me on Windows). You can take a look on my blog from more details. Just download the jnlp into your windows slave and run the following command:

*java.exe -jar slave.jar -jnlpUrl file:///<path to downloaded file>/slave-agent.jnlp -noCertificateCheck*