Cake.Tool
6.3.0
Prefix Reserved
dotnet tool install --global Cake.Tool --version 6.3.0
dotnet new tool-manifest
dotnet tool install --local Cake.Tool --version 6.3.0
#tool dotnet:?package=Cake.Tool&version=6.3.0
nuke :add-package Cake.Tool --version 6.3.0
Cake
Cake (C# Make) is a build automation system with a C# DSL to do things like compiling code, copy files/folders, running unit tests, compress files and build NuGet packages.
Table of Contents
Documentation
You can read the latest documentation at https://cakebuild.net/.
For a simple example to get started see Setting up a new project.
Contributing
So you’re thinking about contributing to Cake? Great! It’s really appreciated.
Make sure you've read the contribution guidelines before sending that epic pull request. You'll also need to sign the contribution license agreement (CLA) for anything other than a trivial change. NOTE: The .NET Foundation CLA Bot will provide a link to this CLA within the PR that you submit if it is deemed as required.
- Fork the repository.
- Create a branch to work in.
- Make your feature addition or bug fix.
- Don't forget the unit tests.
- Send a pull request.
Get in touch
License
Copyright © .NET Foundation, Patrik Svensson, Mattias Karlsson, Gary Ewan Park, Alistair Chapman, Martin Björkström, Dave Glick, Pascal Berger, Jérémie Desautels, Enrico Campidoglio, C. Augusto Proiete, Nils Andresen, and contributors.
Cake is provided as-is under the MIT license. For more information see LICENSE.
- For Roslyn, see https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/blob/master/License.txt
- For Autofac, see https://github.com/autofac/Autofac/blob/master/LICENSE
- For NuGet.Core, see https://github.com/NuGet/Home/blob/dev/LICENSE.txt
Thanks
A big thank you has to go to JetBrains who provide each of the Cake Developers with an Open Source License for ReSharper that helps with the development of Cake.
Sponsors
Our wonderful sponsors:
Backers
Our wonderful backers:
Code of Conduct
This project has adopted the code of conduct defined by the Contributor Covenant to clarify expected behavior in our community. For more information see the .NET Foundation Code of Conduct.
Contribution License Agreement
By signing the CLA, the community is free to use your contribution to .NET Foundation projects.
.NET Foundation
This project is supported by the .NET Foundation.
| Product | Versions Compatible and additional computed target framework versions. |
|---|---|
| .NET | net8.0 is compatible. net8.0-android was computed. net8.0-browser was computed. net8.0-ios was computed. net8.0-maccatalyst was computed. net8.0-macos was computed. net8.0-tvos was computed. net8.0-windows was computed. net9.0 is compatible. net9.0-android was computed. net9.0-browser was computed. net9.0-ios was computed. net9.0-maccatalyst was computed. net9.0-macos was computed. net9.0-tvos was computed. net9.0-windows was computed. net10.0 is compatible. net10.0-android was computed. net10.0-browser was computed. net10.0-ios was computed. net10.0-maccatalyst was computed. net10.0-macos was computed. net10.0-tvos was computed. net10.0-windows was computed. |
This package has no dependencies.
| Version | Downloads | Last Updated |
|---|---|---|
| 6.3.0 | 0 | 9/14/2026 |
| 6.2.0 | 2,090,790 | 5/22/2026 |
| 6.1.0 | 3,137,960 | 3/1/2026 |
| 6.0.0 | 4,885,533 | 11/11/2025 |
| 5.1.0 | 4,460,714 | 10/4/2025 |
| 5.0.0 | 9,870,618 | 11/12/2024 |
| 4.2.0 | 8,119,252 | 10/23/2024 |
| 4.1.0 | 6,609,820 | 10/23/2024 |
| 4.0.0 | 13,124,958 | 11/18/2023 |
| 3.2.0 | 9,538,091 | 11/10/2023 |
| 3.1.0 | 10,516,863 | 7/9/2023 |
| 3.0.0 | 12,852,995 | 11/8/2022 |
| 2.3.0 | 11,104,933 | 10/14/2022 |
| 2.2.0 | 13,262,449 | 4/14/2022 |
| 2.1.0 | 18,568,373 | 2/20/2022 |
| 2.0.0 | 8,349,393 | 11/30/2021 |
| 2.0.0-rc0002 | 17,392 | 11/27/2021 |
| 2.0.0-rc0001 | 31,137 | 11/7/2021 |
| 1.3.0 | 7,085,034 | 10/7/2021 |
| 1.2.0 | 5,035,577 | 8/29/2021 |
#4991 Add support for verbosity via configuration.
#4945 Add GitHub Actions NuGetLogin for OIDC trusted publishing.
#4890 Add typed Cake aliases for dotnet tool subcommands.
#4979 Update Microsoft.IdentityModel.JsonWebTokens to 8.22.0.
#4976 Update Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection to 9.0.20 (net9.0) & 10.0.12 (net10.0).
#4968 Update Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp.Scripting ro 5.9.0.
#4966 Update Basic.Reference.Assemblies.* to 1.8.11.
#4964 Update Autofac to 9.3.2.
#4958 Update NuGet.* to 7.9.0.
#4956 Update .NET SDK to 10.0.401.
#4931 Update Spectre.Console to 0.57.2.
#4929 Update System.Security.Cryptography.Pkcs to 9.0.18 (net9.0) & 10.0.10 (net10.0).
#4925 Update Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp.Scripting to 5.6.0.
#4923 Update Autofac to 9.3.1.
#4921 Update Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection to 9.0.18 (net9.0) & 10.0.10 (net10.0).
#4919 Update Microsoft.IdentityModel.JsonWebTokens to 8.19.2.
#4917 Update .NET SDK to 10.0.302.
#4916 Add format command support to IAzurePipelinesCommands.
#4909 Update Spectre.Console to 0.57.1.
#4904 Update Basic.Reference.Assemblies.* to 1.8.9.
#4902 Update Autofac to 9.3.0.
#4900 Add support for Inno Setup 7.
#4897 Update Autofac to 9.2.0.
#4893 Update Spectre.Console to 0.57.0.
#4891 Add missing GitHub Actions default environment variables to GitHubActions provider.
#4888 Update System.Security.Cryptography.Pkcs to 9.0.17 (net9.0) & 10.0.9 (net10.0).
#4882 Update Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection to 9.0.17 (net9.0) & 10.0.9 (net10.0).
#4876 Update Spectre.Console to 0.56.0.
#4867 Update Microsoft.IdentityModel.JsonWebTokens to 8.19.1.
#4985 CakeExecuteScript/CakeExecuteExpression silently ignore several CakeSettings when running via Cake.Tool.
#4977 CS8632 when Cake.Tool generates aliases from nullable-enabled addins.
#4870 Report table rendering breaks in terminals without a black background.