Third-Party Components

This repository contains the source code and patches for the third-party libraries:

• DiscUtils (v0.11) - a .NET library for reading and writing ISO files and Virtual Machine disk files (VHD, VDI, XVA, VMDK, etc);
• SharpZipLib (v0.85.4)- a Zip, GZip, Tar and BZip2 library written entirely in C# for the .NET platform;
• JsonSubTypes (v2.0.1) - a discriminated Json sub-type Converter implementation for .NET
• XML-RPC.NET (v2.5.0) - a library for implementing XML-RPC Services and clients in the .NET environment;
• log4net (v2.0.15) - a library providing logging services for purposes of application debugging and auditing;

Contributions

The preferable way to contribute patches is to fork the repository on Github and then submit a pull request. If for some reason you can't use Github to submit a pull request, then you may send your patch for review to the [email protected] mailing list, with a link to a public git repository for review. Please see the CONTRIB file for some general guidelines on submitting changes.

License

This code is licensed under the BSD 2-Clause license. The individual libraries are subject to their own licenses, which can be found in the corresponding directories. Please see the LICENSE file for more information.

How to build dotnet-packages

Prerequisites

1. PowerShell 3.0 or above
2. Net Framework 4.5 and 4.8 installed.
3. Net Standard 2.0 installed.
4. Visual Studio build tools for 2019 (toolsversion 16.0). Add the location of msbuild to the System Path.
5. The Windows 10.0.18362.0 SDK (included in VS 2019).
6. git for Windows.

Build

The libraries can be built (with patches applied) by opening a PowerShell prompt in the repo root and running:

.\build.ps1 [-SnkKey <snk-file>] [-NugetSources <package-sources>]