| NAnt  Help  Introduction  Installation | v0.85 | 
NAnt is available in either a source or binary distribution. The binary distribution is all you need to use NAnt to build your projects, including creating your own custom tasks, types and functions.
If you are upgrading NAnt from a previous version, you must never install over the top of your previous installation. Delete or rename the existing installation directory before installing the new version of NAnt.
nant-bin.zip or 
                    nant-bin.tar.gz will work, the contents of each archive are the 
                same.nant.bat in a directory that is included in 
                        the PATH system environment variable. (eg. C:\WINDOWS).
                    nant.bat:
                        
@echo off
"C:\Program Files\NAnt\bin\NAnt.exe" %*
                        
                    nant.bat in a directory that is included in 
                                the PATH system environment variable. (eg. C:\WINDOWS).
                            nant.bat:
                                
@echo off
mono "C:\Program Files\NAnt\bin\NAnt.exe" %*
                                
                            nant in a suitable location in your 
                                filesystem (eg. /usr/local/bin).
                            nant:
                                
#!/bin/sh
exec mono /usr/local/nant/bin/NAnt.exe "$@"
                        
                            nant has permission to execute, eg:
                                
chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/nant
                        
                            nant -help. If 
                successful, you should see a usage message displaying available command line 
                options.nant-src.zip or 
                    nant-src.tar.gz will work, the contents of each archive are the 
                same.make install MONO= MCS=csc prefix=installation-path
                        eg. make install MONO= MCS=csc prefix="C:\Program Files"
nmake -f Makefile.nmake install prefix=installation-path
                        eg. nmake -f Makefile.nmake install prefix="C:\Program Files"
make install prefix=installation-path
                        eg. make install prefix="C:\Program Files"
nmake -f Makefile.nmake install MONO=mono CSC=mcs prefix=installation-path
                        eg. nmake -f Makefile.nmake install MONO=mono CSC=mcs prefix=/usr/local/
                    This will first build a bootstrap version of NAnt, and then use that to build 
                    and install the full version to installation-path/NAnt.