running asp.vnext starter project from sources - asp.net-core

Question

do you know if is available some guide how to run a project created from the sample starter project from sources? I suppose that cloning the repositories from github and configuring the solution may be possible to do this, may be very useful to study how it works.
thanks,
Luca
this is the outuput of the kvm list command
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1.0.0-beta1 CLR amd64 C:\Users\luca\.kre\packages
1.0.0-beta1 CLR x86 C:\Users\luca\.kre\packages
1.0.0-beta1 CoreCLR amd64 C:\Users\luca\.kre\packages
1.0.0-beta1 CoreCLR x86 C:\Users\luca\.kre\packages
1.0.0-beta2-10724 CLR x86 C:\Users\luca\.kre\packages
1.0.0-beta2-10724 CoreCLR x86 C:\Users\luca\.kre\packages
1.0.0-beta2-10726 CLR x86 C:\Users\luca\.kre\packages
1.0.0-rc1-10781 CLR x86 C:\Users\luca\.kre\packages
1.0.0-rc1-10781 CoreCLR x86 C:\Users\luca\.kre\packages
1.0.0-rc1-10798 CLR x86 C:\Users\luca\.kre\packages
1.0.0-rc1-10798 CoreCLR x86 C:\Users\luca\.kre\packages * 1.0.0-rc1-10804 CLR x86
C:\Users\luca.kre\packages default
I cloned and added those repositories:
Configuration,DataCommon,Data Protection,Dependency Injection,Diagnostic,Entity Framework, File System, Hosting, HttpAbstraction,Identity, KRuntime, Logging, Mvc, Razor, Routing, Scaffolding, Security, Static Files, WebSockets Abstractions.
Seems to me those are the needed repositories need to run it from local sources.
other errors:
6>D:\Studio\vs2015\FromSource\KRuntimeSrc\Microsoft.Framework.Runtime.Roslyn\RoslynCompiler.cs(10,25): ASP.NET 5.0 error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'PortableExecutable' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Reflection' (are you missing an assembly reference?)
6>D:\Studio\vs2015\FromSource\KRuntimeSrc\Microsoft.Framework.Runtime.Roslyn\AssemblyNeutral\EmbeddedReferencesHelper.cs(5,25): ASP.NET 5.0 error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'Metadata' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Reflection' (are you missing an assembly reference?)
6>D:\Studio\vs2015\FromSource\KRuntimeSrc\Microsoft.Framework.Runtime.Roslyn\AssemblyNeutral\EmbeddedReferencesHelper.cs(6,25): ASP.NET 5.0 error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'PortableExecutable' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Reflection' (are you missing an assembly reference?)
6>D:\Studio\vs2015\FromSource\KRuntimeSrc\Microsoft.Framework.Runtime.Roslyn\AssemblyNeutral\TypeCompilationContext.cs(57,47): ASP.NET 5.0 error CS0012: The type 'ImmutableArray<>' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced. You must add a reference to assembly 'System.Collections.Immutable, Version=1.1.33.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'.
6>D:\Studio\vs2015\FromSource\KRuntimeSrc\Microsoft.Framework.Runtime.Roslyn\AssemblyNeutral\TypeCompilationContext.cs(57,36): ASP.NET 5.0 error CS1579: foreach statement cannot operate on variables of type 'System.Collections.Immutable.ImmutableArray<Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.INamedTypeSymbol>' because 'System.Collections.Immutable.ImmutableArray<Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.INamedTypeSymbol>' does not contain a public definition for 'GetEnumerator'
6>D:\Studio\vs2015\FromSource\KRuntimeSrc\Microsoft.Framework.Runtime.Roslyn\AssemblyNeutral\TypeCompilationContext.cs(62,38): ASP.NET 5.0 error CS0012: The type 'ImmutableArray<>' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced. You must add a reference to assembly 'System.Collections.Immutable, Version=1.1.33.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'.

Answer 1

Install VS 2015
Clone the repos that you want to build
If you want to build the dev branch, make sure you install the dev KRE (https://github.com/aspnet/home/tree/dev)
Open the solution in VS and build

Answer 2

If you want to include the source of one of the dependencies, you can:
clone the repo locally with git (eg. git clone http://github.com/aspnet/Mvc for the MVC 6 repository)
execute kpm restore in the repos local folder
then reference the source in your solution's global.json. Add the "sources" attributes as follows:
global.json
{
"sources": [ "src", "test", "/path/to/your/project/src" ]
}
You might also need to tweak the dependencies in your project.json for the projects where you want to use the source:
"Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc": "6.0.0-beta1"
try changing it to
"Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc": ""
Another thing to try is to use kpm restore in your project folder. The K Package Manager should go and get any of the dependencies listed in your project.json file, but in practice, I found that it doesn't always find the specific versions I'm looking for.