diff --git a/Tesses.CrossLang.Args/cross.json b/Tesses.CrossLang.Args/cross.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..efafa11
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tesses.CrossLang.Args/cross.json
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{
+    "name": "Tesses.CrossLang.Args",
+    "version": "1.0.0.0-prod",
+    "info": {
+        "maintainer": "Mike Nolan",
+        "type": "lib",
+        "repo": "https://gitea.site.tesses.net/tesses50/crosslang/crosslang-libs",
+        "homepage": "https://crosslang.tesseslanguage.com/",
+        "license": "LGPLv3"
+    }
+}
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diff --git a/Tesses.CrossLang.Args/src/args.tcross b/Tesses.CrossLang.Args/src/args.tcross
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f97e9de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tesses.CrossLang.Args/src/args.tcross
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+func Tesses.CrossLang.Args(args)
+{
+    var filename = args[0];
+
+    if(args.Count < 1) return null;
+    var flags = [];
+    var options = [];
+    var pos = [];
+    
+    var onlyPos=false;
+
+    for(var i = 1; i < args.Count; i++)
+    {
+        if(args[i] == "--") {
+            onlyPos=true;
+            continue;
+        }
+        if(!onlyPos && args[i].Count > 2 && args[i][0] == '-' && args[i][1] == '-')
+        {
+            var p = args[i].Substring(2).Split("=",true,2);
+            if(p.Count == 1)
+                flags.Add(p[0]);
+            else if(p.Count == 2)
+                options.Add({Key = p[0],Value=p[1]});
+        }
+        else {
+            pos.Add(args[i]);
+        }
+    }
+
+
+    return {
+        Options = options,
+        FileName = filename,
+        Flags = flags,
+        Arguments = pos
+    };
+
+}
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diff --git a/Tesses.CrossLang.BuildEssentials/src/buildtool.tcross b/Tesses.CrossLang.BuildEssentials/src/buildtool.tcross
index f9ef94f..b31879d 100644
--- a/Tesses.CrossLang.BuildEssentials/src/buildtool.tcross
+++ b/Tesses.CrossLang.BuildEssentials/src/buildtool.tcross
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ func Tesses.CrossLang.BuildTool(pm)
             };
         },
         BuildProject = (this,projectDirectory)=>{
-            
             var dir = FS.MakeFull(projectDirectory);
             var dirStr = dir.ToString();
             
@@ -99,10 +98,12 @@ func Tesses.CrossLang.BuildTool(pm)
                 {
                     each(var dep : configData.project_dependencies)    
                     {
-                        if(dep.IsRelative())
-                        dependencies.Add(this.BuildProject(dir / dep));
+                        if(Path.FromString(dep).IsRelative())
+                        {
+                            dependencies.Add(this.BuildProject((dir / dep)));
+                            
+                        }
                         else
-
                         dependencies.Add(this.BuildProject(dep));
                     }
                 }
diff --git a/Tesses.CrossLang.Shell/cross.json b/Tesses.CrossLang.Shell/cross.json
index 8747f15..d390224 100644
--- a/Tesses.CrossLang.Shell/cross.json
+++ b/Tesses.CrossLang.Shell/cross.json
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
         "license": "LGPLv3"
     },
     "project_dependencies": [
-        "./Tesses.CrossLang.BuildEssentials"
+        "../Tesses.CrossLang.BuildEssentials",
+        "../Tesses.CrossLang.Args"
     ]
 }
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diff --git a/Tesses.CrossLang.Shell/src/main.tcross b/Tesses.CrossLang.Shell/src/main.tcross
index d293a86..babd799 100644
--- a/Tesses.CrossLang.Shell/src/main.tcross
+++ b/Tesses.CrossLang.Shell/src/main.tcross
@@ -1,4 +1,64 @@
 func main(args)
 {
-    Console.WriteLine("Hello, world");
+    var dd = Tesses.CrossLang.Args(args);
+    if(dd.Arguments.Count > 0)
+    {
+        var commandName = dd.Arguments[0];
+        if(commandName == "args")
+        {
+            each(var arg : dd.Arguments)
+            {
+                Console.WriteLine(arg);
+            }
+        }
+        if(commandName == "build")
+        {
+            var offline=false;
+            var buildPath = ".";
+            if(dd.Arguments.Count > 1)
+            {
+                buildPath = dd.Arguments[1];
+            }
+            each(var flag : dd.Flags)
+            {
+                if(flag == "offline")
+                {
+                    offline = true;
+                }
+            }
+            var pm = Tesses.CrossLang.PackageManager();
+            pm.Offline = offline;
+            var bt = Tesses.CrossLang.BuildTool(pm);
+            bt.BuildProject(buildPath);
+        }
+        else if(commandName == "run")
+        {
+            var offline=false;
+            var buildPath = ".";
+            
+            each(var flag : dd.Flags)
+            {
+                if(flag == "offline")
+                {
+                    offline = true;
+                }
+            }
+            var pm = Tesses.CrossLang.PackageManager();
+            pm.Offline = offline;
+            var bt = Tesses.CrossLang.BuildTool(pm);
+            var output =  bt.BuildProject(buildPath).Output;
+
+            var env = VM.CreateEnvironment({});
+            env.RegisterEverything();
+            env.LockRegister();
+
+            env.LoadFileWithDependencies(FS.Local,output);
+            var myArgs = [];
+            for(var i = 1; i < dd.Arguments.Count; i++)
+            {
+                myArgs.Add(dd.Arguments[i]);
+            }
+            return env.GetDictionary().main(myArgs);
+        }
+    }
 }
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diff --git a/script.sh b/script.sh
index 416e3a5..4724061 100755
--- a/script.sh
+++ b/script.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 cd Tesses.CrossLang.BuildEssentials && crossc -o ./bin-tmp -n Tesses.CrossLang.BuildEssentials -v 1.0.0.0-prod main.tcross src/*.tcross && cd ..
-crossvm ./Tesses.CrossLang.BuildEssentials/bin-tmp/Tesses.CrossLang.BuildEssentials-1.0.0.0-prod.crvm Tesses.CrossLang.Shell
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+crossvm ./Tesses.CrossLang.BuildEssentials/bin-tmp/Tesses.CrossLang.BuildEssentials-1.0.0.0-prod.crvm Tesses.CrossLang.Shell
+crossvm ./Tesses.CrossLang.Shell/bin/Tesses.CrossLang.Shell-1.0.0.0-prod.crvm build Tesses.CrossLang.PackageServer 
+#crossvm ./Tesses.CrossLang.Shell/bin/Tesses.CrossLang.Shell-1.0.0.0-prod.crvm build Tesses.CrossLang.Website
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