How can I pass multiple source files to the TypeScript compiler?

TypeScript is designed for large-scale JavaScripty projects which typically consist of multiple internally produced files along with externally produced libraries. How does the TypeScript compiler (tsc) expect you to provide it with the complete set of files that make up a project?

dir *.ts /b /s > ts-files.txt
tsc @ts-files.txt
del ts-files.txt

This will compile all *.ts files in working directory and its sub directories. If you don't want to include sub directories, just remove the /s part from the first line.

Note that you can also add other arguments to the tsc line. Here is what I'm using now for one of my projects:

tsc @ts-files.txt --out ..\output\deerchao.web.js --removeComments

tsc can compile multiple sources in sequence if you just give the names in order:

tsc foo.ts bar.ts

You can also pass a text file containing a list of files and command line arguments from a text file using the @ command line argument.

tsc @compile.txt

and the compile.txt could look like this:

--module amd
foo.ts
bar.ts

Also note that if on file references another via an import, tsc will automatically figure that out without you having to explicitly list the file that it depends on.

In case anyone needs this for Mac OS X:

find . -name "*.ts" -type f >ts-files.txt
/usr/local/bin/tsc @ts-files.txt --module CommonJS --out ./Deploy/ServerMain.js --removeComments
rm ts-files.txt

With TypeScript 1.5 (beta but the final version should be there soon), you can create a tsconfig.json file to configure the TypeScript compiler and the files to compile (among other things). See my answer over there: How to watch and compile all TypeScript sources?