Pnp-powershell: How do we build SharePointPnP.PowerShell solution?

[Zerg00s]

Solution Build-related Issue/Questuon

Can soneone, please help me to build the solution SharePointPnP.PowerShell? Is there a good manual with the steps? I am probably missing something related to the nuGet packages. But not sure what.

Steps

• Cloned the repo
• I've read through the \Documentation\readme.md file
• Built SharePointPnP.PowerShell.ModuleFilesGenerator project successfully.
• Built SharePointPnP.PowerShell.CmdletHelpAttributes project successfully.
• Building SharePointPnP.PowerShell.Commands project fails . Propubly because of the nuGet packages

More info

• Target framework: .net Framework 4.5
• Visual Studio versuion: 2017 Community

Expected behavior

Soltion should build with no errors.

Actual behavior

• When trying to build the SharePointPnP.PowerShell.Commands project I get errors:
  

Steps to reproduce behavior

• Clone the repo
• Build SharePointPnP.PowerShell.ModuleFilesGenerator
• Try to build the soltuion

Which version of the PnP-PowerShell Cmdlets are you using?

N/A

What is the version of the Cmdlet module you are running?

N/A

How did you install the PnP-PowerShell Cmdlets?

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[garrytrinder]

I had the same issue, it is because you are missing the debug build of the PnP-Sites-Core project which PnP-PowerShell heavily depends on.

See this section https://github.com/SharePoint/PnP-PowerShell/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#code-contributions

In order to succesfully compile the PnP PowerShell solution you will also have to download and build in Visual Studio the PnP-Sites-Core repository and make the dev branch available. The PowerShell solution depends on it. In order to succesfully compile it, make sure that PnP-Sites-Core is located at the same level as PnP-PowerShell and you open the solution file OfficeDevPnP.Core.sln located in the Core subfolder of the sourcecode.

Clone this repo, build it using the relevant build task for your targeted version, go back to Pnp-PowerShell and it should now build successfully 👍🏻

[garrytrinder]

When I get chance I will push some updated contribution steps, as I think it can be and should be much clearer than it currently is.

[Zerg00s]

Thank you @garrytrinder, with your instructions I was able to build the SharePointPnP.PowerShell solution.