NAnt requires one of the .NET frameworks (1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.5 or 4.0) or the third party Mono platform.
Front-ends
There are several front-end GUI tools available:
NAntBuilder, a full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for NAnt. It is designed to be a NAnt script creator, editor, and debugger.
NAntGUI, an open source tool for editing and running NAnt scripts.
Nantpad, a commercial tool by Profusion Software Studios that allows authoring, browsing and executing NAnt scripts.
ColorNAnt, The Perl script ColorNAnt is a wrapper for 'NAnt' and produces the same output but with pretty 'syntax' highlighting. Color schemes can be customized.
NantMenu, a Windows Shell Extension allowing you to run NAnt build scripts directly from within Windows Explorer.