cake-build/cake

🍰 Cake (C# Make) is a cross platform build automation system.

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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.

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Cake .NET ToolNuGetAzure Artifacts
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Table of Contents

  1. Documentation
  2. Contributing
  3. Get in touch
  4. License

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

Follow @cakebuild on Mastodon Follow @cakebuild.net on Bluesky

Join the chat at https://github.com/cake-build/cake/discussions

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.

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:

Sponsors

Backers

Our wonderful backers:

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.

build-automation
build-automation-tool
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cake-build
continuous-integration
c-sharp
dotnet
dotnetcore
hacktoberfest
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unit-testing
xunit

cake-build/cake

🍰 Cake (C# Make) is a cross platform build automation system.

C#

4,194

4,630 commits

updated Oct 14, 2026

See the code

README

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.

RunnerLatest ReleasedLatest Develop
Cake .NET ToolNuGetAzure Artifacts
Cake FrostingNuGetAzure Artifacts
Cake SDKNuGetAzure Artifacts

Continuous integration

Build serverPlatformBuild statusIntegration tests
Azure PipelinesMacOSAzure Pipelines Mac Build status
Azure PipelinesWindowsAzure Pipelines Windows Build status
Azure PipelinesDebianAzure Pipelines Debian Build status
Azure PipelinesFedoraAzure Pipelines Fedora Build status
Azure PipelinesCentosAzure Pipelines Cake Centos status
Azure PipelinesUbuntuAzure Pipelines Ubuntu Build status
AppVeyorWindowsAppVeyor branchAppVeyor branch
TeamCityWindowsTeamCity Build Status
BitriseMacOSBuild StatusBuild Status
BitriseDebianBuild StatusBuild Status
Bitbucket PipelinesDebianBuild Status
GitLabDebianpipeline status
GitHubWindows / Ubuntu/ macOSBuild Status
Woodpecker CIDebianWoodpecker CI statusWoodpecker CI Status
RWXUbuntuRWX Build StatusRWX Build Status

Code Coverage

Coverage Status

Table of Contents

  1. Documentation
  2. Contributing
  3. Get in touch
  4. License

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

Follow @cakebuild on Mastodon Follow @cakebuild.net on Bluesky

Join the chat at https://github.com/cake-build/cake/discussions

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.

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:

Sponsors

Backers

Our wonderful backers:

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.

build-automation
build-automation-tool
build-tool
cake
cake-build
continuous-integration
c-sharp
dotnet
dotnetcore
hacktoberfest
nuget
nunit
orchestration
unit-testing
xunit

Project health

Overall

5.2/10

Maintained

10/10

Code review

0/10
OpenSSF Scorecard

NuGet

Latest release

1.3.0 · Oct 7, 2021

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