#Cake

Cake (C# Make) is a build automation system with a C# DSL to do things like compiling code, copy files/folders, running unit tests, compress files and build NuGet packages.

##Table of contents

1. Implemented functionality
2. Example
   • Download Cake
   • Create build script
   • Run build script
3. Documentation
4. Bootstrapper
5. Contributing
6. External add-ons
7. License

##Implemented functionality

This is a list of some the currently implemented functionality.
For a full list of supported tools, see the DSL reference.

• MSBuild
• MSTest
• xUnit (v1)
• xUnit (v2)
• NUnit
• NuGet
  • Pack
  • Push
  • Restore
  • Sources
• ILMerge
• WiX
  • Candle
  • Light
• SignTool
• File operations
  • Copying
  • Moving
  • Deleting
• Directory operations
  • Creation
  • Cleaning
  • Deleting
• File/Directory globbing
• Compression (zip)
• AssemblyInfo patching
• Release notes parser
• AppVeyor
• MSBuild Resource
  • Solution file parsing
  • Project file parsing
• Octopus deploy
  • Create release

For more information and examples of how to use Cake, see the Documentation.

##Example

###1. Download Cake

C:\Project> NuGet.exe install Cake -OutputDirectory Tools -ExcludeVersion

###2. Create build script

var target = Argument("target", "Default");
var configuration = Argument("configuration", "Release");

// Define directories.
var buildDir = Directory("./src/Example/bin") + Directory(configuration);

Task("Clean")
    .Does(() =>
{
    CleanDirectory(buildDir);
});

Task("Restore-NuGet-Packages")
    .IsDependentOn("Clean")
    .Does(() =>
{
    NuGetRestore("./src/Example.sln");
});

Task("Build")
    .IsDependentOn("Restore-NuGet-Packages")
    .Does(() =>
{
    MSBuild("./src/Example.sln", new MSBuildSettings()
        .UseToolVersion(MSBuildToolVersion.NET45)
        .SetVerbosity(Verbosity.Minimal)
        .SetConfiguration(configuration));
});

Task("Run-Unit-Tests")
    .IsDependentOn("Build")
    .Does(() =>
{
    XUnit2("./src/**/bin/" + configuration + "/*.Tests.dll");
});

Task("Default")
    .IsDependentOn("Run-Unit-Tests");

RunTarget(target);

###3. Run build script

C:\Project\Tools\Cake> Cake.exe ../../build.cake -verbosity=verbose -target=Build

You could of course use a bootstrapper script if you want to.

You can read the latest documentation at http://cakebuild.net/.

The Cake Bootstrapper is a Powershell cmdlet that helps you set up a new Cake build by downloading dependencies, setting up the bootstrapper script and creating a Cake build script.

So you’re thinking about contributing to Cake? Great! It’s really appreciated.

Make sure you've read the contribution guidelines before sending that epic pull request.

• Fork the repository.
• Make your feature addition or bug fix.
• Don't forget the unit tests.
• Send a pull request. Bonus for topic branches. Funny .gif will be your reward.

Cake.AliaSql: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.AliaSql
Cake.Unity: https://github.com/patriksvensson/Cake.Unity
Cake.Slack: https://github.com/WCOMAB/Cake.Slack

Copyright © 2014 - 2015, Patrik Svensson, Mattias Karlsson and contributors. Cake is provided as-is under the MIT license. For more information see LICENSE.

• For Roslyn, see https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/blob/master/License.txt
• For Mono.CSharp, see https://github.com/mono/mono/blob/master/mcs/LICENSE
• For Autofac, see https://github.com/autofac/Autofac/blob/master/LICENSE
• For NuGet.Core, see https://nuget.codeplex.com/license