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Dasher

Build: Dasher-Windows (Avalonia / .NET)

A Windows desktop frontend built with Avalonia and .NET 10.

This page is a quick start. The authoritative source is the repo README.

Prerequisites

  • .NET 10 SDK
  • CMake 3.20+
  • Visual Studio 2026 (or Build Tools) with the Desktop development with C++ workload, CMake tools, and the Windows SDK

Build

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/dasher-project/Dasher-Windows.git
cd Dasher-Windows

# 1. Build the DasherCore C API DLL
cd native
./build.cmd        # or: build.ps1
cd ..

# 2. Run the app
cd src/Dasher.Windows
dotnet run

The build copies dasher.dll next to the app.

How DasherCore is consumed

DasherCore (as a submodule) is built via CMake into dasher.dll (the C API). The C# frontend calls it directly through P/Invoke in Engine/NativeBridge.cs:

[DllImport("dasher", CallingConvention = CallingConvention.Cdecl)]
public static extern IntPtr dasher_create(int width, int height);

Architecture note: this frontend uses direct C API P/Invoke. (An earlier “command-buffer bridge” design has been retired.)

Packaging

installer/ produces an MSI and an MSIX via WiX v5; CI (build-installer.yml) builds installers and publishes GitHub Releases on v* tags.