Build commands for executable resources

[michaelwildvarian]

Hey everyone, first time user here...

I got Aspire to work nicely with my .NET projects and love it. However, I also have a number of C++ services built with CMake. Now, I can use builder.AddExecutable("foo", "path/to/foo", "path/to/workdir"). But that requires me to manually run CMake and the build myself, breaking the promise of Aspire. Looking through the sources, I think the magic happens in DcpExecutor, but so far I don't see how I could model "configure-build-run".

[michaelwildvarian]

To answer myself, something like this does it:

var builder = DistributedApplication.CreateBuilder(args);
var cmakeConfigure = builder
  .AddExecutable(
    "CMakeConfigure",
    "cmake",
    "relative/path/to/dir",
    "-S", ".",
    "-B", "relative/path/to/other/dir",
    "-G", "Ninja");
var cmakeBuild = builder
  .AddExecutable(
    "CMakeBuild",
    "cmake",
    "relatvie/path/to/dir",
    "--build", "relative/path/to/other/dir",
    "--target", "foo")
  .WaitForCompletion(cmakeConfigure);
var foo = builder
  .AddExecutable(
    "foo",
    "relative/path/to/other/dir/path/to/foo",
    "path/to/work/dir")
  .WaitForCompletion(cmakeBuild);