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FAKE 5 Migration Cheat Sheet

FAKE 5 Migration Cheat Sheet

Happy holidays everyone!

Pikachu in a Santa hat

When you start migrating from FAKE 4 and FAKE 5, you'll find that a simply opening the FAKE namespace isn't enough. Also, if like me, deprecation warnings drive you mad, you'll want to get rid of them as quickly as possible. I made the following cheat sheet to expedite your FAKE migration (and to help me update the other scripts I still need to update.)

Function/Module changes

Below are the functions I've had to update more than once. Most of them at least require referencing a nuget package and/or opening a module that you didn't have to open before.

Each of the following headers is the name of a FAKE 4 function. The snippet that follows shows how it is used in FAKE 4 followed by how to accomplish the same task in FAKE 5.

Target

// =======================================
// Before
// =======================================

Target "Foo" (fun _ -> 
    printfn "Foo to the Bar"
)

// =======================================
// After
// =======================================

open Fake.Core // From the Fake.Core.Target nuget package

Target.create "Foo" (fun _ ->
    printfn "Foo to the Bar"
)

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Target Operators

All of the FAKE custom operators are in their own modules now.

open Fake.Core.TargetOperators // From the Fake.Core.Target nuget package
"Clean"
    ==> "Restore"
    ==> "Build"
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Important: FAKE 4 Target operators (from FakeLib) do not work with FAKE 5 targets (and vice versa). That means converting Targets to FAKE 5 means using the operators from FAKE 5.

FullName

// =======================================
// Before
// =======================================

let path = "./foo" |> FullName // Auto-opened from Fake.FileSystemHelper

// =======================================
// After
// =======================================

open Fake.IO 

let path = "./foo" |> Path.getFullName // From the Fake.IO.FileSystem the nuget package 
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getBuildParam

// =======================================
// Before
// =======================================

// In FAKE 4 getBuildParam implicitly called getBuildParamOrDefault with empty string as the default

let userName = getBuildParam "userName" // Auto-opened from Fake.EnvironmentHelper

// =======================================
// After
// =======================================

open Fake.Core

let userName = 
    // From nuget package Fake.Core.Environment
    Environment.environVarOrDefault "UserName" ""
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Some Extra Notes

Passing arguments to your FAKE script is a little different in FAKE 5. In FAKE 4 you may have had something like

./build.sh <targetName> <buildParam>=foo, you now have a couple of different options, depending on your use case:

# create an environment variable that's scoped to the current shell session.
export myKey="my value"
./build.sh build
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let myKey = Environment.environVarOrDefault "myKey" ""
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If you want to pass arguments on the command line, you have to pass them with the following syntax:

# using the FAKE dotnet CLI tool
fake run build.fsx -t build --arg
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And then in build.fsx:

Target.create "Foo" (fun p ->
    printfn "args: %A" p.Context.Arguments

    printfn "%A " p
)

Target.runOrDefaultWithArguments "Foo"
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You need to use Target.runOrDefaultWithArguments instead of Target.runOrDefault to access arguments this way. Additionally, the target function signature is now string -> TargetParameter -> unit -> unit. You have to use the TargetParameter (p in the example above) to get access to it. Context.Arguments is a string list. You can use the module Fake.Core.CommandLineParsing to parse the target arguments.

parseAllReleaseNotes

// =======================================
// Before
// =======================================
open Fake.ReleaseNotesHelper

let releaseNotes = File.ReadAllLines "RELEASE_NOTES.md"

let releaseNotesData =
     releaseNotes
     |> parseAllReleaseNotes

let release = List.head releaseNotesData

// =======================================
// After
// =======================================

open Fake.Core

let release = 
    // From Fake.Core.ReleaseNotes nuget package
    ReleaseNotes.load "RELEASE_NOTES.md"
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SemVerHelper.parse

// =======================================
// Before
// =======================================

let packageVersion = SemVerHelper.parse release.NugetVersion // From Fake.SemVerHelper

// =======================================
// After
// =======================================

open Fake.Core
let semVer =
    // From Fake.Core.SemVer nuget package
    SemVer.parse release.NugetVersion
printfn "semver.Parse: %s" <| semVer.ToString()


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isUnix

// =======================================
// Before
// =======================================

let pathSep = if isUnix then """\""" else "/" // From Fake.EnvironmentHelper

// =======================================
// After
// =======================================
open Fake.Core

let pathSep = 
    // From the nuget package Fake.Core.Environment
    if Environment.isUnix then """\""" else "/"
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ProcessHelper.tryFindFileOnPath

// =======================================
// Before
// =======================================

let fooExe = ProcessHelper.tryFindFileOnPath "foo"

// =======================================
// After
// =======================================

open Fake.Core

let fooExe =
    // From the nuget package Fake.Core.Process
    ProcessUtils.tryFindFileOnPath "foo" 
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DotNetCli.GetDotNetSDKVersionFromGlobalJson()

// =======================================
// Before
// =======================================

let dotnetcliVersion = DotNetCli.GetDotNetSDKVersionFromGlobalJson()

// =======================================
// After
// =======================================

open Fake.DotNet

// After
// From the nuget package Fake.DotNet.Cli
// In the namespace Fake.DotNet and module DotNet
let dotnetcliVersion = DotNet.CliVersion.GlobalJson
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CleanDirs

// =======================================
// Before
// =======================================

// Auto-opened from Fake.FileHelper
CleanDirs [exampleDir]

// =======================================
// After
// =======================================

open Fake.IO

//From the nuget package Fake.IO.FileSystem
Shell.cleanDirs [deployDir] 
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ExecProcess / Shell.Exec

// =======================================
// Before
// =======================================

let result = Shell.Exec("foo", "--version")
if result <> 0 failwith "boom"

// =======================================
// After
// =======================================

open Fake.Core

let result =
    // From the NuGet Package Fake.Core.Process
    CreateProcess.fromRawCommand "dotnet" ["--info"]
    |> Proc.run
if result.ExitCode <> 0 then failwith "boom"

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build

// =======================================
// Before
// =======================================
open Fake

Target "MSBuild" (fun _ ->
    let setMsBuildParams defaultParams =
        { defaultParams with
            Targets=["Build"]
            Properties = ["Configuration", "Debug"]
        }
    // Auto-opened from Fake.MSBuildHelper
    build setMsBuildParams "Foo.sln"
)

// =======================================
// After
// =======================================

open Fake.DotNet

Target.create "MSBuild" (fun _ ->
    let setMsBuildParams defaultParams =
        { defaultParams with
            Targets=["Build"]
            Properties = ["Configuration", "Debug"]
        }
    MSBuild.build setMsBuildParams "Foo.sln"
)
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Top comments (3)

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Tuomas Hietanen

Thanks great article. The only minor typo was in wrong pathSep, but you can get the correct one from Path.DirectorySeparatorChar (off-topic anyway). Is Fake5 focused for .NET Core, or should you consider migrating an old .NET Framework full application also?

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Jeremy Abbott

Thank you for the feedback! I didn't know about Path.DirectorySeparatorChar

I would consider migrating regardless of which flavor of .NET you're using. FAKE 5 includes MSBuild and NuGet APIs. The FAKE runner is a dotnet SDK global tool, but that doesn't mean it can't be used with scripts written for .NET Framework applications.

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Patricia dos Santos Pastorelli

Thanks, great article... It saved me hundreds of hours searching for the right migration

Patricia