PowerShell/docs/building/internals.md

Internals of build process

The purpose of this document is to explain build process internals with subtle nuances. This document is not by any means complete. The ultimate source of truth is the code in .\build.psm1 that's getting executed on the corresponding CI system.

This document assumes, that you can successfully build PowerShell from sources for your platform.

Top directory

We are calling dotnet tool build for $Top directory

• src\powershell for CoreCLR builds (all platforms)
• src\Microsoft.PowerShell.ConsoleHost for FullCLR builds (Windows only)

Modules

There are 3 modules directories with the same purpose: they have content files (i.e. *.psm1, *.psd1) which would be binplaced by dotnet

• src\Modules shared between all flavours
• src\Microsoft.PowerShell.ConsoleHost\Modules FullCLR (Windows)
• src\powershell\Modules CoreCLR (all platforms)