# Ironruby-dev.zip

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-dev-zip/161951>\
**Category:** IronRuby\
**Created:** [March 4, 2009, 5:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-dev-zip/161951 "2009-03-04T05:56:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![jsoho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@jsoho](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jsoho)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 5:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-dev-zip/161951/1 "2009-03-04T05:56:58Z")

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Currently, it’s a little hard to find your way around the github  
repository. To make our crazy directory structure manageable from the  
command line, the DLR and Languages teams have a developer bat file  
which sets up paths and helpful aliases to make jumping to important  
directories and building easy. It was not initially included in the  
IronRuby github repository because of aliases for non-applicable things.  
However, in an effort to make life easier when working out of github,  
I’ve extracted meaningful aliases here:

[http://cloud.github.com/downloads/ironruby/ironruby/ironruby-dev.zip](http://cloud.github.com/downloads/ironruby/ironruby/ironruby-dev.zip)

Extract the contents into the root of your local repository, and run  
dev.bat to initialize your environment. This will give you msbuild on  
your path if you have the VS SDK installed, and give you aliases to  
navigate the tree and build IronRuby and IronPython (see alias.txt).  
Currently the Silverlight build aliases don’t work, but that’ll be fixed  
shortly.

Unfortunately xbuild doesn’t quite work to build for Mono, so you’ll  
have to stick with rake compile. I’d be open to having dev.bat detect  
the platform and load a alias file for building on Mono.

These will be added to the github repository shortly, but it requires  
some refactoring in our internal repo to make sure the aliases work in  
both places.

~Jimmy