Velopack is made up of some Rust binaries which are re-distributed with installed apps, a .NET NuGet package, and a .NET command line tool. In order to test the project, you need to build the Rust binaries before compiling dotnet.

Prerequisites

.NET 6 SDK
.NET 8 SDK
Rust / Cargo
dotnet tool install -g dotnet-coverage
dotnet tool install -g nbgv

Debug / Test

On windows, you need to build the Rust binaries using the windows feature before running tests. On OSX, you should run cargo build instead.

git clone https://github.com/velopack/velopack.git
cd velopack/src/Rust
cargo build --features windows
cd ../../
dotnet build
dotnet test --no-build

Release / Build

This is slightly complicated, because you will need to compile Rust on x64 OSX and x64 Windows before creating the final packages.

On OSX:

git clone https://github.com/velopack/velopack.git
cd velopack/src/Rust
cargo build --release

On Windows:

git clone https://github.com/velopack/velopack.git
cd velopack/src/Rust
cargo build --release --features windows
copy {path_to_osx_update} target/release/updatemac
dotnet build -c Release /p:PackRustAssets=true