Pre requisites to build ADAL.NET and MSAL.NET

Components required to build the library

The following are instructions to setup Visual Studio to build the Combined.NoWinRT.sln

Minimal Visual Studio 2017 installation

• Install or update Visual Studio 2017 with the following workloads:

  • Universal Windows Platform
  • Mobile Development with .NET
  • .NET Core cross-platform development

• Then from the "Individual Components" tab,make sure these additional items are selected:

  • .NET Framework 4.5 targeting pack
  • .NET Framework 4.5.2 targeting pack
  • .NET Framework 4.6.1 SDK
  • .NET Framework 4.6.1 targeting pack
  • .NET Framework 4.6.2 targeting pack
  • Android SDK setup (API level 27)

• Android SDK level 24 and 26 are also required. These are not installed through the VS Installer, so instead use the Android SDK Manager (Visual Studio > Tools > Android > Android SDK Manager…)

This should be enough to allow you to build the libraries from the adalv3/dev branch. For the dev branch, you also need to install Visual Studio 2015 (see below)

Troubleshooting

• If you get an exception similar to "System.InvalidOperationException: Could not determine Android SDK location" while restoring the NuGet packages, make sure you have the latest Android SDK installed (27 at the time of writing). If you do, you probably hit a bug with the VS installer - uninstall and reinstall the SDK from the Visual Studio Installer.
• If you get exceptions requiring you to install netcore4.5, this can only be fixed by installing Visual Studio 2015

VS 2017 troubleshooting tool

If you still get exceptions building the solutions, there is a PS script you can run that will tell you which VS 2017 components you are missing - you can find at /build/dev_box.ps1 (currently in dev branch)