Has anybody used Cake (C# Make) ?

[AlTech]

I heard about Cake a long time ago........

And i recently stumbled upon it again.

 

I double checked the forum to see if anybody had mentioned Cake (C# Make) but apparently not......

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I was thinking of using Cake to make using MSBuild signifcantly easier for compiling .NET Core apps.

 

Every time I want to release a new version of a .NET core app, I need to manually tell MS Build to compile each binary.

 

I was hoping Cake would allow me to setup variables and speed up this process significantly.

E.g.

Build binary for Windows 10 X64

Build binary for Windows 10 32 Bit ARM

Build binary for Windows 10 64 Bit ARM

Build binary for WIndows 7 64 Bit

Build binary for Windows 8.1 64 Bit

Build binary for Linux 64 Bit

Build binary for Linux 32 Bit ARM

 

But Cake's documentation is not great......

 

So yeah, Anybody have any experience with Cake (C# Make)?

 

Thanks

[AlTech]

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[mackncheesiest]

I've actually never used Cake either, but I think you might be able to get by with something like

Task("buildEverything").Does(() => {
  DotNetBuild("myProject.sln", settings => settings.SetConfiguration(configuration).SetPlatformTarget(PlatformTarget.x64));
  DotNetBuild("myProject.sln", settings => settings.SetConfiguration(configuration).SetPlatformTarget(PlatformTarget.x86));
  ...
});

RunTarget("buildEverything")

Although I don't think this is exactly right since the PlatformTarget enum doesn't actually have values for all of the builds you would like to do.

 

As a warning, this is mostly based on looking through a few resources/tutorials and piecing them together with this resolved Github issue that deals with setting the platform target in Cake. Along with a basic browsing of the documentation for the DotNetBuild function. So, basically, no clue if this works. Hopefully it helps you in the right direction though.

 

Worst case scenario, you could always also try to take a powershell/cmd scripting "makefile" type approach. If all you want to do is run the same build commands with different platform target arguments and you don't really care about the dependency management or test verification type things that Cake seems to provide, it could end up being easier.

[AlTech]

On 9/5/2017 at 11:25 AM, mackncheesiest said:

 

Worst case scenario, you could always also try to take a powershell/cmd scripting "makefile" type approach. If all you want to do is run the same build commands with different platform target arguments and you don't really care about the dependency management or test verification type things that Cake seems to provide, it could end up being easier.

I don't care about too many features of what Cake provides.

 

It's mainly just the build commands I care about.