Notes about NAnt

website

• http://nant.sourceforge.net/
• documentation, eg list of all tasks: http://nant.sourceforge.net/release/latest/help/tasks/index.html

installation

• see also http://nant.sourceforge.net/release/0.86-beta1/help/introduction/installation.html

• download NAnt nant-0.86-nightly-2009-05-05
  • the beta version does not work for me (0.86-beta1); message: Property 'sdkInstallRoot' has not been set.

• unzip the files to eg. c:\program files\nant
• create file c:\windows\nant.bat with content:

@echo off
"C:\Program Files\NAnt\bin\NAnt.exe" %* -t:net-2.0

usage

• add custom scripts in c#: http://nant.sourceforge.net/release/latest/help/tasks/script.html; also see [1]
  • see also ReplaceInFile in OpenPetra.build

todo

• run SandCastle from NAnt: http://jachman.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/how-to-build-chm-html-documentation-with-sandcastle-september-ctp-2007-and-nant/