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

for installation on Windows, see Setup of Development Environment for Windows#NAnt

Installer for NAnt

To make the installation more simpler, we have created our own NAnt Installer for Windows, which already includes the NAntContrib files.

For the sources of the installer, see https://github.com/openpetra/openpetra/tree/master/setup/tools/nant

The installer itself is available here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openpetraorg/files/openpetraorg/Tools/NAnt-Setup-0.92.exe/download

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

problems

Error message when having .net 4.0 runtime installed: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

• see solution here: http://keithbloom.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/nant-and-the-net-4-error/
  • modify %InstallLocation%\NAnt\bin\NAnt.exe.config and remove at the bottom supportedRuntime version="v4.0.30319"

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/