Cake.Tool
6.2.0
Prefix Reserved
dotnet tool install --global Cake.Tool --version 6.2.0
dotnet new tool-manifest
dotnet tool install --local Cake.Tool --version 6.2.0
#tool dotnet:?package=Cake.Tool&version=6.2.0
nuke :add-package Cake.Tool --version 6.2.0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 6.2.0 | 76,399 | 5/22/2026 |
| 6.1.0 | 1,495,381 | 3/1/2026 |
| 6.0.0 | 3,278,800 | 11/11/2025 |
| 5.1.0 | 3,263,756 | 10/4/2025 |
| 5.0.0 | 8,754,460 | 11/12/2024 |
| 4.2.0 | 7,240,099 | 10/23/2024 |
| 4.1.0 | 5,967,231 | 10/23/2024 |
| 4.0.0 | 12,447,800 | 11/18/2023 |
| 3.2.0 | 9,156,603 | 11/10/2023 |
| 3.1.0 | 10,285,491 | 7/9/2023 |
| 3.0.0 | 12,780,044 | 11/8/2022 |
| 2.3.0 | 11,051,826 | 10/14/2022 |
| 2.2.0 | 13,180,526 | 4/14/2022 |
| 2.1.0 | 17,557,366 | 2/20/2022 |
| 2.0.0 | 8,311,014 | 11/30/2021 |
| 2.0.0-rc0002 | 17,345 | 11/27/2021 |
| 2.0.0-rc0001 | 30,965 | 11/7/2021 |
| 1.3.0 | 7,050,836 | 10/7/2021 |
| 1.2.0 | 5,013,822 | 8/29/2021 |
| 1.1.0 | 4,850,041 | 3/6/2021 |
#4840 Add RWX as a build provider.
#4832 Update Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection to 9.0.16 (net9.0) & 10.0.8 (net10.0).
#4830 Update Microsoft.IdentityModel.JsonWebTokens to 8.18.0.
#4822 Update Spectre.Console to 0.55.2.
#4820 Update Basic.Reference.Assemblies.* to 1.8.8.
#4794 Update NuGet.* packages dependencies to avoid transitive package vulnerable warnings.
#4784 Update Spectre.Console.* to 0.55.0.
#4776 Microsoft.IdentityModel.JsonWebTokens to 8.17.0.
#4771 Update System.Security.Cryptography.Pkcs to 9.0.14 & 10.0.5 (net9.0&net10.0).
#4769 Update Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection to 9.0.14 & 10.0.5 (net9.0&net10.0).
#4765 Update Autofac to 9.1.0.
#4763 Update Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp.Scripting to 5.3.0.
#4442 Frosting DirectoryPath + ConvertableFilePath combines strings instead of paths.
#4158 Cannot specify empty properties when using DotNetBuild.
#2101 CakeReportPrinter should be disabled in Verbosity = Quiet.
#4834 .NET Tool installer switch from --add-source to --source for .NET 9 & 10.
#4456 DotNetMSBuild alias generates extra verbosity argument.
#4454 Impossible to retrieve package versions list with DotNetSearchPackage.
#4324 When running multiple targets, common dependent tasks are executed twice.
#4066 SetupContext.TasksToExecute only lists tasks related to first target when calling RunTargets.
#2666 GetFiles() using Glob curly braces gives empty result.