NuGet Packages

Our official releases and preview builds will be provided as NuGet packages. These packages enable the community to preview our binaries as well as to easily develop against ChakraCore.

NuGet Feed (Stable Builds)

Official NuGet packages are available on NuGet.org:

• Microsoft.ChakraCore for .NET projects.
• Microsoft.ChakraCore.vc140 for Native projects.

MyGet Feed (Preview Builds)

Preview NuGet packages are available on MyGet.org:

• Microsoft.ChakraCore for .NET projects.
• Microsoft.ChakraCore.vc140 for Native projects.

Disclaimer: Packages published to the MyGet feed are for preview purposes only. For these packages, we make no guarantees (other than best-effort) about quality, performance, or otherwise. Additionally, these packages may expire and be deleted without notice; therefore, we do not recommend taking a dependency on these packages as you develop your application.

Using NuGet Packages Automatically

The NuGet packages contain all of the files necessary to automatically embed and develop against ChakraCore.dll.

For both Native and .NET projects, these files include ChakraCore.dll for each architecture and a .props or .targets file which is automatically consumed by VS's NuGet automation when you import a NuGet package into a project. For Native projects, the package also includes the necessary header files to develop against ChakraCore.dll.

.NET projects will need to implement a PInvoke layer to call into the native ChakraCore.dll.

Manually extracting binaries from NuGet Packages

NuGet packages are .zip files with a .nuget extension, so to extract files from a NuGet package, simply rename the file from ChakraCore.nuget to ChakraCore.zip and proceed to extract the files as with any other .zip file.

Refer to the source of the .nuspec files located here for the contents of the various packages.