Powershell: Trouble generating powershell.inc using the msbuild target from internals.md

[kylesferrazza]

Hi there, I am the maintainer of the powershell package for Arch Linux.

I was just working on updating the PKGBUILD for the latest version of dotnet, and encountered the following error message:

Unhandled Exception: System.ArgumentException: Cannot find the file that contains the reference list. The path '[build directory]/src/TypeCatalogGen/powershell.inc' doesn't exist.

After closer inspection, it seems that powershell.inc is not generated by the given msbuild target any more.

Is this an error on my end, or has the build process changed?

Steps to reproduce

Following the steps in docs/building/internals.md

dotnet msbuild src/Microsoft.PowerShell.SDK/Microsoft.PowerShell.SDK.csproj /t:_GetDependencies "/property:DesignTimeBuild=true;_DependencyFile=$(pwd)/src/TypeCatalogGen/powershell.inc" /nologo

Expected behavior

powershell.inc gets generated at src/TypeCatalogGen/powershell.inc.

Actual behavior

Powershell.inc is not created, but no errors are reported.

[rjmholt]

Hi @kylesferrazza! How are you building PowerShell itself? I'm not very savvy on .inc files, but have you tried Start-PSBuild <other options> -TypeGen?

[iSazonov]

@kylesferrazza The change is in .Net Core. Please see code and comments
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/master/build.psm1#L1922-L1940

[kylesferrazza]

@iSazonov thanks! That fixed it.

[daxian-dbw]

I will update the document internals.md. Will close this issue along with the doc update.

[iSazonov]

@kylesferrazza If you have automatically build indicator we could add it in our readme.md to see Arch Linux night build status.