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Zlatko Knezevic 7b975aeeac Add contrib guidelines, Docker links Add contribution guidelines. These just link to the CoreCLR ones. Add stubs of the "user guide" and "developer guide". Add links to the Docker base image repo on GitHub.		2015-11-16 20:11:22 -08:00
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Contributing.md	Add contrib guidelines, Docker links	2015-11-16 20:11:22 -08:00
README.md	Add contrib guidelines, Docker links	2015-11-16 20:11:22 -08:00

README.md

Start developing on .NET Command Line Interface

Prerequisites

In order to build .NET Command Line Interface, you need the following installed on you machine.

For Windows

Visual Studio 2015 with Web Development Tools

Beta8 is available here and should work: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49442
- Install WebToolsExtensionsVS14.msi and DotNetVersionManager-x64.msi

CMake (available from https://cmake.org/) is required to build the native host corehost. Make sure to add it to the PATH.

For Linux

You need CMake in your path.

For OS X

[TODO]

Building/Running

Run build.cmd or build.sh from the root depending on your OS.
Use artifacts/{os}-{arch}/stage2/dotnet to try out the dotnet command. You can also add artifacts/{os}-{arch}/stage2 to the PATH if you want to run dotnet from anywhere.

Tools

Visual Studio

You can use Visual Studio 2015 to work on these bits.

Visual Studio Code

You can also use Visual Studo code https://code.visualstudio.com/ to contribute to this project.

A simple test

cd test\TestApp
dotnet run

Contributing to the repo

Once you are set up with requirements and you want to start, please review our contribution guidelines to get up to speed with the process.

I just want to use this toolchain

If you just want to use the .NET Command Line Interface, your best bet would be to use the installers provided on the main README file. You can also follow the above guide for building from source to get the lastest (bleeding edge) bits.