Using Nuget without checking in nuget.exe

[mandalorianbob]

I've got a Cake.Frosting build runner and a private nuget feed.

I'd like to use Nuget to restore via the private feed, but Cake's unable to find nuget.exe. This is probably because I don't really have any local copies. I'd rather not store nuget.exe is my source, but I'm not sure how else to reliably get and use nuget in the context of a Frosting runner.

Am I missing an option somewhere?

[augustoproiete]

@mandalorianbob An easy way to make nuget.exe available to Cake is to install the package NuGet.CommandLine as a tool via InstallTool.

public static class Program
{
    public static int Main(string[] args)
    {
        return new CakeHost()
            .InstallTool(new Uri("nuget:?package=NuGet.CommandLine&version=5.9.1"))
            .Run(args);
    }
}

[mandalorianbob]

This works. I didn't think of the nuget.exe being separate from the nuget that you use to download packages, but that makes sense.

Thanks!