• Requires PowerShell 7.2 or later.
• Should work with any module from my PowerShellTemplate.

I've started using Invoke-Build to run my builds in PowerShell (due mostly to unhappiness with GitHub and Azure Pipelines). This is a collection of tasks I've written that get shared by all my project builds.

Your .build.ps1 script must set variables:

• $PSModuleName
  • The name of the module you're building.
  • There must be a .psd1 module manifest with this name in your source.
  • The build will create a folder with this name in the output folder

If you're including building a dotnet project, it's also recommended to set

• $DotNetPublishRoot
  • The target folder for dotnet publish.
  • Defaults to $OutputRoot/publish
  • For PowerShell modules, I always override this to $BuildRoot/lib and add that to the CopyDirectories list in my ModuleBuilder build.psd1 so that it gets copied to the output folder by ModuleBuilder.

• $dotnetProjects
  • Specifies which projects to build
  • I recommend you put this as a parameter on your Build.ps1
    • Set the default to the full list of your assembly projects
    • Add an alias: "Projects"
• $dotnetTestProjects
  • Specifies which projects are test projects
  • I recommend you put this as a parameter on your Build.ps1
  • Add an alias: "TestProjects"
• $dotnetOptions
  • Specifies further options to pass to dotnet
  • I recommend you put this as a parameter on your Build.ps1
  • Add an alias: "Options"
  • Example values: "-verbosity" = "minimal" "-runtime" = "linux-x64"