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<h1>Getting Started</h1>
<p>This topic will show you NAnt building itself. Before you begin make sure your system meets the <a href="fog0000000006.html">system requirements</a>.</p>
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<li>Download the <a title="NAnt files page on SourceForge" href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=31650">latest source release</a>.</li>
<li>Unzip the distribution into a new folder.</li>
<li>Open a command prompt and change the directory to the folder where NAnt was installed.</li>
<li>Type <span style="white-space: nowrap;"><code>bin\nant</code></span> to build NAnt.</li>
<li>Look at the <a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/nant/nant/NAnt.build?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup">NAnt.build</a> file to see how it works.</li>
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<p>If you did everything correctly you should see something like this:</p>
<p><img height="313" alt="Console output" src="getting-started.gif" width="589" /></p>
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