Cake Frosting is a .NET host which allows you to write your build scripts as a console application.
See Setting Up A New Cake Frosting Project tutorial for how to get started with Cake Frosting.
Requirements
Cake.Frosting can be used to write console applications targeting net8.0 or newer.
Usage
dotnet Cake.Frosting.dll [switches]
Switches
| Switch | Description | Available Since |
|---|---|---|
| --description | Shows description about tasks. | 1.0.0-rc0002 |
| --dryrun | Performs a dry run. | 0.30.0 |
| -e, --exclusive | Execute a single task without any dependencies. | 1.0.0-rc0002 |
| -h, --help | Prints help information. | 0.30.0 |
| --info | Displays additional information about Cake execution. | 1.0.0-rc0002 |
| -t, --target <TARGET> | Sets the build target. Default value is Default. |
0.30.0 |
| --tree | Shows the task dependency tree | 1.0.0-rc0002 |
| -v, --verbosity <VERBOSITY> | Specifies the amount of information to be displayed (quiet, minimal, normal, verbose, diagnostic). | 0.30.0 |
| --version | Displays Cake.Frosting version number. | 0.30.0 |
| -w, --working <PATH> | Sets the working directory. | 0.30.0 |
Custom switches
All switches not recognized by Cake will be added to an argument list that is passed to the build script. See Arguments And Environment Variables how to read arguments in your script.
Use a space instead of = if the value of a switch can be empty or null:
--foo ""
Bootstrapping for Cake Frosting
When creating a new Cake Frosting project from the template default bootstrapping scripts for Windows, macOS and Linux are created.
The following instructions require .NET Core 3.1.301 or newer. You can find the SDK at https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download
Setup
To create a new Cake Frosting project you need to install the Frosting template:
dotnet new install Cake.Frosting.Template
Create a new Frosting project:
dotnet new cakefrosting
This will create the Cake Frosting project and bootstrapping scripts.
Running build script
Run the build script:
./build.ps1
build.sh
build.sh
The Default target will run when the build script is started without an explicit target.
Using pre-release versions
Cake uses Azure Artifacts as a NuGet feed for testing and pre-release builds. With these pre-release builds the next version of Cake can be accessed and utilized for getting the latest features or testing addins or build scripts to know if the next release will be safe when you need to upgrade.