How to run two cake files one by one based on the first success of compiling the cake?

Question

I want to start the source compilation of the source.cake file and then compile the Build.cake file. But I should not run Build.cake if the source.cake file has crashes. So how do you pass the compilation status of the soruce.cake to build.cake file?

Is this possible in the cake?

Answer 1

Yes, there are several ways to do this, if you are running a Windows or Bash command prompt, you can simply use the statement &&as follows:

cake source.cake && cake build.cake

If you use PowerShell, you can do the following

cake .\source.cake;if($LASTEXITCODE -eq 0) { cake .\build.cake }

Cake Cake, source.cake build.cake, , build.cake:

//First line of build.cake
CakeExecuteScript("./source.cake");
//If above fails it'll throw an exception and stop executing build.cake