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Apache .NET Ant Library
Apache .NET Ant Library™
The Apache .NET Antlib provides tasks that support
development of .NET software with Apache Ant.
Apache .NET Ant Library 1.1
February 4, 2011 - Apache .NET Ant Library 1.1
Available
Apache .NET Ant Library 1.1 is now available for
download as
binary
or
source
release.
This release fixes a few bugs and adds new tasks for the
F# compiler and the tallow tool of the WiX toolkit.
Idea
This library doesn't strive to replace NAnt or MSBuild, its
main purpose is to help those of us who work on projects
crossing platform boundaries. With this library you can use Ant
to build and test the Java as well as the .NET parts of your
project.
This library provides a special version of the
task tailored to run .NET executables.
On Windows it will assume the Microsoft framework is around and
run the executable directly, while it will invoke Mono on any
other platform. Of course you can override these
assumptions.
Based on this a few tasks to run well known .NET utilities
from within Ant are provided, namely tasks to run
NUnit
NAnt
MSBuild
and the
Wix
toolkit.
The initial .NET tasks of Ant (compiler tasks for C#, J# and VB.NET
for example) have also been moved to this Antlib and will see further
development here.
Tasks
dotnetexec
Runs a .NET executable.
nunit
Runs NUnit tests.
nant
Invokes NAnt, either on an external file or a build file
snippet contained inside your Ant build file.
msbuild
Invokes MSBuild, either on an external file or a build file
snippet contained inside your Ant build file.
wix
Invokes the candle and light executables of the WiX toolkit
in order to create MSI installers from within Ant.
Examples
nant
runs NAnt on the embedded
task, output looks like
Buildfile: test.xml
[dn:nant] NAnt 0.85 (Build 0.85.1932.0; rc3; 16.04.2005)
[dn:nant] Copyright (C) 2001-2005 Gerry Shaw
[dn:nant] http://nant.sourceforge.net
[dn:nant]
[dn:nant] Buildfile: file:///c:/DOKUME~1/STEFAN~1.BOD/LOKALE~1/Temp/build1058451555.xml
[dn:nant] Target framework: Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1
[dn:nant]
[dn:nant] [echo] Hello world
[dn:nant]
[dn:nant] BUILD SUCCEEDED
[dn:nant]
[dn:nant] Total time: 0.2 seconds.
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 2 seconds
msbuild
runs MSBuild on the embedded
task, output looks like
Buildfile: test.xml
[dn:msbuild] Microsoft (R) Build Engine Version 2.0.50727.42
[dn:msbuild] [Microsoft .NET Framework, Version 2.0.50727.42]
[dn:msbuild] Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 2005. All rights reserved.
[dn:msbuild] Build started 15.12.2005 20:21:56.
[dn:msbuild] __________________________________________________
[dn:msbuild] Project "c:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\stefan.bodewig\Lokale Einstellungen\Temp\build1543310185.xml" (default targets):
[dn:msbuild] Target generated-by-ant:
[dn:msbuild] Hello world
[dn:msbuild] Build succeeded.
[dn:msbuild] 0 Warning(s)
[dn:msbuild] 0 Error(s)
[dn:msbuild] Time Elapsed 00:00:00.10
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 0 seconds
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