What command line build tools (like make) can I use with Mono C#?

Question

I need to use C# on Mac, and I have Mono. What command line tools are for building purposes Mono/C#?

• Can I just use make?
• Or is there any tool for that just like Ant for Java?

Answer 1

There is NAnt. Development of NAnt starts to get faster again, so we'll see a new release soon ;)

-sa

Answer 2

On *nix platforms, you can simply use make to build and deploy your .NET libraries/applications.

It works quite well and is what Mono itself does when you build from source. Mono will first build mcs and then use the newly built mcs to build the framework assemblies.

Answer 3

It looks like the Mono project has its own version of MSBuild, xBuild.