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Was able to build it and run the HelloWorld.cs example. You need to build coreclr and corefx on windows for the managed components, since only the core cpp source can be built on linux at this time. You also need to install mono and grab nuget and use it to fetch a few packages. But all in all it feels fairly historic.

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.NET Core team member here.

I'm glad that you were able to make it all work with the instructions[1] we provided. There are two major pieces that we're still working on, which you call out:

- Compiling managed source on OS X and Linux with Roslyn.

- Running DNU (NuGet) on .NET Core to restore packages.

Most everything else functionaly works. Once those are solved (and we are close to it), the experience will be great. In just a few commands, you'll be able to acquire .NET Core, restore packages and run your app, independent of which OS you are on.

For .NET developers, it is indeed historic. Community and corporate developers alike are quite excited and see a lot of new opportunities going forward. You might have noticed that the community is leading the OS X and FreeBSD .NET ports, with support from Microsoft. We added official FreeBSD CI[2] only a week ago, upon the request of the community.

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/Documentation/...

[2] https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr#build-status

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Thanks for chiming in. Really looking forward to further developments. As a 15 year+ Windows development veteran whose been doing python on Ubuntu for 3 years it's great to be playing with .NET again. As far as the HelloWorld instructions go, they worked very well, so kudos on that. I think it's super important for developers to be able to jump in and check it out. I also should have mentioned that I used docker's ubuntu:14.04 image as a launch pad for this exercise, and it worked great as well.

Great. I'm the one (@richlander) who has been spending the most time on docs, including publishing all of the "Book of the Runtime" docs[1]. It's a whole lot easier for others to "follow along at home" if you show them how.

We (and me in particular) are going to continue investing in docs for this reason. Feel free to file an issue if there is anything else you want written/explained. We have operators waiting.

BTW: I highly recommend the "Introduction to the CLR" [2] doc. It has a great fundamental view of the product that I suspect many .NET developers would appreciate and will likely learn something from.

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/Documentation/...

[2] https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/Documentation/...

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