NAnt Home Page

September 18, 2001 Gerry Shaw -- gerry_shaw@yahoo.com

NAnt is a .NET based build tool. In theory it is kind of like make without make's wrinkles. In practice it's a lot like Ant. NAnt has only been tested with Beta 2 .NET SDK, build 2914.

The idea for NAnt came from Hazware's XBuild project. After emailing the author for a beta 2 version of the tool and getting no response I decided to port the code to .NET beta 2. Due to the number of changes from .NET beta 1 to beta 2 the result was a total rewrite.

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Getting Started

Since the software is still in heavy development you are going to be on your own. You can see NAnt build itself by doing the following:

1. Download the latest released version.
2. Unzip the distribution into a new folder.
3. Using a command prompt (so you can see the build output) cd into the folder where NAnt was unzipped.
4. Type bin\nant at the command prompt to build NAnt.