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Xake is MAKE clone, with an F# programming language as script language. Xake utilizes full power of the F# language to provide clean syntax:

#r "paket: nuget Xake ~> 1.1 prerelease nuget Xake.Dotnet ~> 1.1 prerelease //"#if!FAKE
#load ".fake/project-example.fsx/intellisense.fsx"#endifopenXakeopenXake.TasksopenXake.DotnetletsrcPath="project-example-src"do xakeScript {
rules ["main"<==["out/hw.exe"]"out/hw.dll"..> csc {src (!!"util.cs"@@ srcPath)}"out/hw.exe"..> csc {
target TargetType.Exe
src (!!"hw.cs"++"ver.cs"@@ srcPath)
ref !!"out/hw.dll"}
srcPath </>"ver.cs"..> recipe {let!envver= getVar "VER"letver= envver |> Option.defaultValue "v0.1"do! trace Message "Updating version number to `%s`" ver
do! writeText (sprintf """// static class App {const string Ver = "%s";}""" ver)}]}

Unlike many other tools it was made with declarative approach in mind. Such approach allows to internally track dependencies which in turn brings extra benefits such as:

• incremental build (only rebuild affected part)
• estimate build time (progress indicator)
• execute tasks in parallel

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