The Compile-AXAOT custom PowerShell function will allow you to compile the AOT using the client compile.  I would recommend using the Start-AXBuildCompile function that uses the server compile if you are on AX 2012 R2 CU7 or higher as this function will compile much faster but this one will accomplish the same thing if you aren’t.

The Compile-AXAOT function takes between 1 and 6 parameters:

• ConfigPath (Client configuration for the chosen AX environment)
• TimeOut (The value defaults to 2 hours but can be overridden if desired)
• SMTPServer (SMTP server to use to send the email)
• MailMsg (Net.Mail.MailMessage object used to send the email)
• AXVersion (The AX version.  It defaults to 6.)
• VariablePath (Path to a file used to default the parameters/variables)

You might notice that this function doesn’t take a LogFile parameter.  That is because the client compile stores the log file in specific location and changing that value would not allow you to receive the compile log.  This function can be found in Codeplex.  The steps of this function are:

• Load the variables if a VariablePath parameter is used
• Get the AX environment info using Get-AXConfig
• Get the CompileApplication AX AutoRun xml using the Get-AXAutoRunXML function
• Call the Start-AXAutoRun function to compile the AOT

This function should also only be run on the AOS server.  It has been tested using AX 2012 R2 CU6 and CU7 but I would expect this to work for any version of AX 2012.