msbuild incomplete / broken

[fluffynuts]

relates to:

• problem with switching from xbuild to msbuild #379
• app-editors/visual-studio-code-1.26.1 can't find "/x86/Debug/" #405

issues experienced:

• msbuild attempts to build to / (so the user will see output as per issue problem with switching from xbuild to msbuild #379)
• many targets missing (so, eg, MVC applications will fail to build)
• cannot build with Jetbrains Rider (xbuild has some other issue and msbuild, which is now recommended, doesn't work)

msbuild in Ubuntu seems to be in a correct state though. I'm not sure how to fix this, but the Ubuntu package might be a good place to look for differences.

Please let me know if there's some way I can help with this.

[cnd]

cc: @ArsenShnurkov

[ShadowCat8]

@ArsenShnurkov
I had seen a couple questions that you had asked earlier on this thread, and, I can say that I was trying to use dev-util/msbuild-15.3-r3 from the "dotnet" overlay on Gentoo.

I have the output from enabling the "+debug" flag on my build of msbuild to the thread in the Gentoo forums.

Hope that helps. If you need anything else that I can provide, let me know.

[ArsenShnurkov]

If you need anything else that I can provide, let me know.

please try https://github.com/ArsenShnurkov/shnurise/blob/master/dev-util/msbuild/msbuild-15.9.20.62856-r1.ebuild (it's for "latest stable" tag in msbuild repo)
but that will not solve your problem, because someone need to package Sdks - #335

[ostroffjh]

@ArsenShnurkov I have tried that ebuild, and get an error that src/MSBuild/mono-MSBuild.csproj: '>' is an unexpected token. The expected token is '='. Line 44, position 87. I think I fixed that by changing the end of that line from > to />
However, then, (even with debug and developer flags set) I get error for missing .cs files under ../src/Build/:
Debugger/DebuggerLocalType.cs
Debugger/DebuggerManager.cs
BackEnd/Components/SdkResolution/SdkResolution.cs
Collections/OrdinalKeyedComparer.cs
Collections/OrdinalIgnoreCaseKeyedComparer.cs
I have no idea if that is part of the Sdks packaging issue, or something else.

[ArsenShnurkov]

no, it's something else. I will recheck the ebuild itself (because mine compiles)
line 44 is comment - https://github.com/ArsenShnurkov/shnurise/blob/master/dev-util/msbuild/files/15.9.20.62856/mono-Microsoft.Build.csproj#L44

[ostroffjh]

build.log
Build log attached. I think those missing .cs files were bogus, because I still get the earlier error, even with the patch to change the > to />

[ostroffjh]

OK, I'm now feeling pretty stupid. I finally figured out I was sloppy downloading the two .csproj files, and had ended up with html, not the real csproj.eix msbuild. Fixed those, and the compile finished fine. The install failed because of a sandbox issue (I'll raise that later.) The final qmerge still fails due to a file conflict, but I suspect I need to get the eselect working first, so I have more to do before posting again.

[ArsenShnurkov]

I need to get the eselect working first

I wrote eselect-msbuild, but msbuild ebuild is not ready yet (i need to finish msbuild's configuration, to help it find default tasks)

[Ristovski]

@ArsenShnurkov Is there any progress on this?

[ArsenShnurkov]

@Ristovski - too many dependencies to repackage (for example #422), I need help from other gentoo developers

[filmor]

msbuild should probably be removed or hard-masked in its current form. The ebuild is essentially non-functional and severely outdated as well.