Psake
A build automation tool written in PowerShell (by psake)
Cake
:cake: Cake (C# Make) is a cross platform build automation system. (by cake-build)

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Psake | Cake | |
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5 | 14 | |
1,568 | 3,965 | |
0.1% | 0.8% | |
7.3 | 9.1 | |
4 months ago | 27 days ago | |
PowerShell | C# | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Psake
Posts with mentions or reviews of Psake.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-08.
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Achieving single command Infrastructure deployment using PowerShell DSC.
You may use other tools too: psake, make, cake, fake or any other *ake you are familiar with. I look at them as a tools that make build tasks behind simple commands and help me answer: How did I run that code again?
- How do you guys make sense of a complex project on GitHub?
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How do you specify Debug or Release when calling Invoke-psake?
I use the psake PowerShell module to "build" my PowerShell modules. My psakefile.ps1 contains the logic needed to update the manifest with an incremented version, any new function/cmdlet names, and so on. Then it copies everything from .\src\ to .\output\modulename\version. All I do is call Invoke-psake build or Invoke-psake test, and this works great as-is for "pure powershell modules".
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What build tool(s) do people use for their applications?
I've used psake (powershell+make) https://github.com/psake/psake - the main thing that attracted me to this was that it wasn't an XML based system (Nant/MSbuild), and it handled task prerequisites very nicely. While some devs find powershell a bit of a pain to learn, they generally become useful very quickly, and I think it's useful to be able to do some level of powershelling anyway.
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pake: Just another Make but with Powershell
GitHub - psake/psake: A build automation tool written in PowerShell
Cake
Posts with mentions or reviews of Cake.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-10-08.
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Essential .NET Libraries Every Developer Should Know
Cake (C# Make) is a cross-platform build automation system with C# DSL.
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Unpopular opinion: CI/CD engines are an awful idea
This is why 90-99% of our builds are done with Cake. It isolates all of it and you can run the build locally if you want.
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Cake v2.3.0 released - New Command aliases, New .NET Workload aliases, improved global caching of scripts, bug fixes, and more.
A good starting point of you want to get started with Cake is our website at https://cakebuild.net/
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Cake : A C23 to C99 transpiler
I don't think it will get too much confusion, but there is a build system called Cake: https://cakebuild.net/
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Achieving single command Infrastructure deployment using PowerShell DSC.
You may use other tools too: psake, make, cake, fake or any other *ake you are familiar with. I look at them as a tools that make build tasks behind simple commands and help me answer: How did I run that code again?
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.NET build tool using Bullseye and SimpleExec
NAnt was quite a popular build tool used by projects of all sizes targeting .NET Framework on Windows. I have written many complex build systems using NAnt in the past. But XML based DSL was quite clunky to use and maintain. Besides, it was always a daunting task to explain to a new dev on the team. With .NET Core/.NET becoming a cross-platform framework, CAKE and FAKE gained a lot of adoption providing a C# and F# based DSL for build tasks accordingly.
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Nuke Build - best build automation system
Cake (C# Make) - simple, easy to set up, and with a lot of extensions scripting with C#.
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Can Cake be used to build a .NET Core 3.1 console application for Windows, Linux and Mac... on a Windows machine?
I got the example and the answer I needed on this thread: https://github.com/cake-build/cake/discussions/3564
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Creating reusable build scripts with NUKE components
For those not familiar with it, Cake is a build automation system with a C#-based DSL. It is based on the concept of tasks, which are small units of work, like restoring packages, building, or testing, which can have dependencies on, or trigger, other tasks.
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A super simple make wrapper for docker/podman that runs all your targets in a container - just a utility I put together to make my life slightly easier, nothing fancy
Just a note: there's already a very active community of the same name for the build utility Cake.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Psake and Cake you can also consider the following projects:
Invoke-Build - Build Automation in PowerShell
NUKE - 🏗 The AKEless Build System for C#/.NET
MSBuild - The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is the build platform for .NET and Visual Studio.
FAKE - FAKE - F# Make
CS Make - Sake Build
Nake - Magic script-based C# task runner for .NET Core
FlubuCore - A cross platform build and deployment automation system for building projects and executing deployment scripts using C# code.

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Bad PDFs = bad UX. Slow load times, broken annotations, clunky UX frustrates users. Nutrient’s PDF SDKs gives seamless document experiences, fast rendering, annotations, real-time collaboration, 100+ features. Used by 10K+ devs, serving ~half a billion users worldwide. Explore the SDK for free.
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