Documentation for Build Environment

[finsterdexter]

I would like to see if I can help out with development, so I forked, cloned and am having trouble building. I'm using VS 2013 Ultimate and am getting all kinds of build errors when I try to build Nest.sln in VS. If I use build.bat it blows up because it can't find MSBuild.Community.Tasks.Targets.

So, it would help me if there was basic docs about setting up a build environment for NEST.

[Mpdreamz]

Hey @finsterdexter first of all welcome aboard! I welcome any contribution in any shape or form!

Sorry about this I always try my hardest not to break the build.

Should be back in the green now though:

http://teamcity.codebetter.com/viewLog.html?buildId=109388&tab=buildResultsDiv&buildTypeId=bt993

I broke the build reorganizing the projects and removing some of them. I left the configuration properties for the removed project files in the .sln file. Also some of the relative references to the packages folder got screwed up. Visual Studio still saw the dll's in the bin directory so kept on building fine for me.

build.bat is used by me to build the nuget packages and relies on msbuild community tasks being installed. That build will always fail on the signing part though since it needs NEST's private key which is not checked in. I'll be sure to alter that build file to by default do not build the .Signed packages though.

You don't need the special msbuild tasks to build NEST within visual studio.

I also develop nest using VS2013 and Xamarin Studio.