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Cake (C# Make)

A cross platform build automation system
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What is Cake (C# Make)?

It is a free and open source cross-platform build automation system with a C# DSL for tasks such as compiling code, copying files and folders, running unit tests, compressing files and building NuGet packages.
Cake (C# Make) is a tool in the Automated Build Tools category of a tech stack.
Cake (C# Make) is an open source tool with 3.8K GitHub stars and 717 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Cake (C# Make)'s open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Cake (C# Make)?

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5 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Cake (C# Make).

Cake (C# Make) Integrations

Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Atom, .NET, and .NET Core are some of the popular tools that integrate with Cake (C# Make). Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with Cake (C# Make).

Cake (C# Make)'s Features

  • Cross platform & cross runtime
  • IDE integration
  • Reliable
  • Batteries included
  • Open source & community backed

Cake (C# Make) Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Cake (C# Make)?
FinalBuilder
With FinalBuilder you don't need to edit xml, or write scripts. Visually define and debug your build scripts, then schedule them with windows scheduler, or integrate them with Continua CI, Jenkins or any other CI Server.
SCons
It is an Open Source software construction tool—that is, a next-generation build tool. Think of it as an improved, cross-platform substitute for the classic Make utility with integrated functionality similar to autoconf/automake and compiler caches such as ccache. In short, it is an easier, more reliable and faster way to build software.
psake
It is a build automation tool written in PowerShell. It avoids the angle-bracket tax associated with executable XML by leveraging the PowerShell syntax in your build scripts.
Conveyor
It makes distributing desktop and command line apps as easy as shipping a web app. It's a tool not a service, it generates self-upgrading packages for Windows, macOS and Linux using each platform's native package formats without requiring you to have those operating systems.
Tulsi
Build Apple-targeted software of any size, quickly and reliably, just as engineers do at Google. It integrates Bazel (Google's build tool) with Apple's Xcode IDE. It is currently in Beta but is broadly used within Google.
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