Making cross-platform builds a piece of Cake

Lightning talk from .NET Fringe 2017 conference in Portland OR.

Presentation included demos, hence the patchy slides.

Transcript

1. Making builds a piece of Cake Alistair Chapman (@agc93) 1
2. Cake (C# Make) 2
3. What is Cake? Cake is a cross-platform build automation system with a C# DSL to do things like compiling code, copying files/folders, running unit tests, compressing files and building NuGet packages. Scripts are written in C# Fully cross-platform Built for every CI system, including your laptop Support for dozens of tools out of the box Now 150 community addins 3
4. What does a script look like? /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // ARGUMENTS /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// var target = Argument("target", "Default"); /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // SETUP / TEARDOWN /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Setup(ctx => { // Executed BEFORE the first task. Information("Running tasks..."); }); Teardown(ctx => { // Executed AFTER the last task. Information("Finished running tasks."); }); /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // TASKS /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Task("Default") .Does(() => { Information("Hello Cake!"); }); RunTarget(target); 4
5. But what can I do? 5
6. Getting Started http:/ /cakebuild.net gitter.im/cake-build/cake github.com/cake-build/cake 6