.NET Core global tool which brings appveyor.yml to the center of your build process by making possible to execute its build jobs, locally.

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• How it works
• Install
• Usage
  • • build command
  • • jobs command
  • • lint command
• Supported build steps

How it works

LocalAppVeyor tries to strictly follow same build pipeline as AppVeyor CI itself.

1. Grabs appveyor.yml's build configuration from current (or specified) local repository folder.
2. Reads supported build steps from it.
3. Executes build pipeline for each job (or specified ones) on the build matrix.

Build engine tries to be the less intrusive as possible printing only what it comes from the build output.

Install

Install LocalAppVeyor as a .NET Core CLI global tool using the following command:

dotnet tool install -g localappveyor

You have it now available on your command line:

LocalAppVeyor --help

^{Requires .NET Core 3.1 or higher.}

Usage

Usage: LocalAppVeyor [options] [command]

Options:
  -?|-h|--help  Show help information
  -v|--version  Show version information

Commands:
  build  Executes one or all build jobs on specified repository directory
  jobs   List all build jobs available to execution.
  lint   Validates appveyor.yml YAML configuration. It requires internet connection.

Use "LocalAppVeyor [command] --help" for more information about a command.

• build command

This is the main console command which allows one to execute all or a smaller set of jobs from the build matrix. --job command should be followed by a integer corresponding to job index as listed on jobs command

Usage: LocalAppVeyor build [options]

Options:
  -?|-h|--help  Show help information
  -d|--dir      Local repository directory where appveyor.yml sits. If not specified current directory is used
  -j|--job      Job to build. You can specify multiple jobs. Use 'jobs' command to list all jobs
  -s|--skip     Step to skip from the build pipeline. You can specify multiple steps.

• jobs command

Lists all available jobs on the specified appveyor YAML configuration file build matrix.

Usage: LocalAppVeyor jobs [options]

Options:
  -?|-h|--help  Show help information
  -d|--dir      Local repository directory where appveyor.yml sits. If not specified current directory is used

• lint command

Validates appveyor.yml YAML configuration. It requires an active internet connection as it uses AppVeyor web API for a real and up to date validation.

Usage: LocalAppVeyor lint [options]

Options:
  -?|-h|--help  Show help information
  -t|--token    AppVeyor account API token. If not specified it tries to get it from LOCALAPPVEYOR_API_TOKEN environment variable. You can find it here: https://ci.appveyor.com/api-token
  -d|--dir      Local repository directory where appveyor.yml sits. If not specified current directory is used

Supported build steps

Due to LocalAppVeyor's nature only a subset of AppVeyor build steps are supported. Some of them might get some support later in time, after consideration, but others most likely won't ever be part of the build pipeline.

✅ Fully supported   🔵 Partially supported   🔴 Not yet supported

Step \ Option	Support	Notes
version	✅	{build} placeholder is replaced by 0
environment	✅	As for the standard AppVeyor variables these are the ones supported: APPVEYOR, CI, APPVEYOR_BUILD_FOLDER, APPVEYOR_BUILD_NUMBER, APPVEYOR_BUILD_VERSION, PLATFORM and CONFIGURATION
configuration	✅
platform	✅
os	✅	Relatively undocumented option but it exists apparently. It's usually a single value so it serves nothing other than to build the matrix job name.
init	✅
clone_folder	✅	Tries first to clone to specified clone_folder, if any; otherwise it creates a random directory in user's temp folder. From this step on all scripts will be executed as the clone folder being the working directory.
matrix	✅
install	✅
assembly_info	✅
before_build	✅
build	✅
build_script	✅
after_build	✅
before_test	🔴
test	🔴
test_script	🔵	It will always execute if it exists, no matter if other tests options are specified.
after_test	🔴
on_success	✅
on_failure	✅
on_finish	✅