Passing Arguments To My Build Script

[Chris Bilson]

What's the best way to pass arguments to my build script? I'm sure
this has come up before but am having trouble finding any information
on how to do this.

For example, say I want the pass a version number to my build script,
maybe from a continuous integration server like Team City. The only
way I can see to do it is to use and environment variable. Is that
what others are doing?

I'd like to be able to do something like:

psake .\default.ps1 -Version 1.42 -Configuration Debug -Foo Bar

[Shaun Becker]

You don't have to use environment variables. You can just use local variables:

$Version='1.42'

$Configuration='Debug'

$Foo='Bar'

psake .\default.ps1

then just reference those variables from within your script as you would any other

Thanks,

Shaun

[Eric Hexter]

In order to get those values from a CI server you would need to pass them through the powershell.exe ... right?

 

powershell.exe  psake.exe default.ps1

 

How does the parameter from the CI server get into the powershell host initially?