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  12                 <tr><td class="NavBar-Cell" width="100%"><b>NAnt</b> : A .NET Build Tool</td></tr>
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  15         <h1><span class="N">N</span><span class="Ant">Ant</span> Home Page</h1>
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  17         <p>September 18, 2001 Gerry Shaw -- <a title="Send email to Gerry Shaw" href="mailto:gerry_shaw@yahoo.com">gerry_shaw@yahoo.com</a></p>
  18         <p>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 <a title="Ant home page" href="http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/">Ant</a>. NAnt has only been tested with Beta 2 .NET SDK, build 2914.</p>
  19         <p>The idea for NAnt came from <a title="Hazware home page" href="http://www.hazware.com/xbHome.htm"> Hazware's XBuild</a> 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.</p>
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  21                 <li><a title="NAnt files page on SourceForge" href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=31650"><b>Download latest version</b></a> from SourceForge</li>
  22                 <li><a title="NAnt web site on SourceForge" href="http://nant.sourceforge.net">Home page</a> on SourceForge</li>
  23                 <li><a title="NAnt project summary on SourceForge" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/nant/">Project summary</a> on SourceForge</li>
  24                 <li><a title="Version history of NAnt" href="changelog.html">Changes</a></li>
  25                 <li><a title="Tasks still being worked on" href="todo.html">To do</a></li>
  26                 <li><a title="Project credits" href="authors.html">Authors</a></li>
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  30         <h2>Getting Started</h2>
  31         <p>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:</p>
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  33                 <li>Download the latest released version.</li>
  34                 <li>Unzip the distribution into a new folder.</li>
  35                 <li>Using a command prompt (so you can see the build output) cd into the
  36                         folder where NAnt was unzipped.</li>
  37                 <li>Type <code>bin\nant</code> at the command prompt to build NAnt.</li>
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