system-requirements.md

System Requirements to Source-Build

This document provides the system requirements to source build the .NET SDK for a targeted platform.

Operating System

Linux

• Toolchain Setup
• Preconfigured Container Images - These images are used by CI to build and test source-build.
• Distros Source Building .NET

MacOS

MacOS is not currently supported: Tracking Issue. However, community users have created a Homebrew project to build .NET for OSX. Please feel free to open new issues in individual repos or in source-build for OSX issues.

Windows

Windows is not currently supported. Tracking Issue

Hardware

Disk Space

80 GB of space is required for a typical build. You can reduced this down to ~30 GB if you build with the clean-while-building option. This might increase over time, so consider this to be a minimum bar.

Memory

A minimum of 8 GB of memory is recommended.

Architectures

Officially Supported

• ARM64
• x64

Community Supported

• ARM32
• s390x
• ppc64le

Network

The following assets will need to be downloaded in order to build.

• Source:
  • .NET 8.0: ~300 MB
  • .NET 6.0: ~500 MB
• SDK: ~200 MB
• Artifacts
  • .NET 8.0: ~1 GB
  • .NET 6.0: ~4 GB