Building .NET Core with Cake

A simple example for building .NET Core apps with Cake including targets for

• Clean
• Restore
• Version (GitVersion)
• Build
• Test (NUnit, *.Tests.csproj)
• Publish (framework-dependent or self-contained)
• Pack (NuGet)
• Push (NuGet)

Usage examples

First you have to install the Cake .NET Core Global Tool

dotnet tool install --global Cake.Tool --version 0.34.1

Then you can invoke the tasks like this:

Build:

dotnet cake -target="Build"

Run tests:

dotnet cake -target="Test"

Create a nuget package:

dotnet cake -target="Pack" -packageProject=".\ClassLibrary\ClassLibrary.csproj"

Push a nuget package to a package source:

dotnet cake -target="Push" -packageProject=".\ClassLibrary\ClassLibrary.csproj" -packageSource="c:\myLocalPackageSource"

Publish a self-contained app targeting win10-x64:

dotnet cake -target="Publish" -runtime="win10-x64"