Setting up NAnt on your pc/server

In this post we are going to see how to set up NANT on your PC/Server. Its first step towards Build Automation.

1.       Download Nant Binaries from http://nant.sourceforge.net/

2.       Once you download all Binary files, right click on Zip file and open Properties as show below

3.       Once properties window opens click on Unblock button as shown below

4.       Now unzip the Zipped file contents at some preferred location for eg. C:\Program Files (x86)\ Nant, as show below.

5.       Now go to “My Computer “ => “Advanced System Settings” => “Environment Variables”

And add following “System variable” as shown below

6.       Edit “Path” Variable in System Variables section as show below, append newly added system variable in your existing paths

 

7.       Open a command prompt and type “Nant – help”, you should see o/p like this.