Sdk: Build dotnet on Fedora 24

[rimolive]

I'm trying to build[1] the project in my Fedora 24 laptop but I'm always getting "OS not found". Where should I specifically look to get my OS be detected by the build.sh?

[1]https://github.com/dotnet/cli/blob/rel/1.0.0/Documentation/developer-guide.md#buildingrunning

[sec]

https://github.com/dotnet/cli/blob/rel/1.0.0/scripts/obtain/dotnet-install.sh#L59

[rimolive]

Even getting a chance to change the script it still tries to download binaries specific to the Fedora version (which there is no binaries yet for F24). Question: Why attach the compilation with a very specific version of libicu? I don't think there is so many changes between version 54(F23) and 56 (F24).

[guoxiao]

In Fedora 24 the version of libicu is 56, not 54. So the prebuilt binaries for Fedora 23 cannot be used in Fedora 24 directly.
We need new binaries for Fedora 24.

[josteink]

Is this just a CI-thing which must be done by MS, or can we build this our-selves as well? I really can't seem to find instructions or documentation for this component anywhere...

If we need help, who can help us out getting that done? ellismg? stephentoub?

[rimolive]

@guoxiao, that's what I said in my last comment. Sorry for not being very specific.

@josteink, it will be great if we can build those binaries for Fedora 24. I'm still looking for it.

[mickaelistria]

https://github.com/dotnet/cli/pull/3813 seems related

[josteink]

There's more to it than that, as mentioned in the comments on https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/6115, but it's a start and probably a required one.

I may be able to chip in some commits and effort in a few weeks when I'm back from my vacation, but I'm not making any promises.

They is of course unless someone else beats me to it.

[erick2red]

I'm interested on building those binaries myself. I can put some time to it, as long as someone with the knowledge point me in the right direction. I was able to build coreclr and corefx repositories on my Fedora 24, the parts than don't depends on the binaries, but from there to the binaries there's a part missing.

[josteink]

Whatever steps must be done for Fedora 24, the same probably applies for other new "platforms" which must be bootstrapped.

I've tried raising a discussion about it for FreeBSD here: https://github.com/dotnet/cli/issues/3815

Hopefully there will be some response.

[josteink]

@erick2red I think a first start is trying to build stage0/corehost on Fedora24 and see if that succeeds.

If that succeeds and the resulting binary seems to work fine, I would assume the rest of the SDK should build nicely as well (although as mentioned in the related FreeBSD issue dotnet/cli#3815, details and docs on building the SDK are sadly lacking).

After that, it may just be prodding someone at Microsoft, responsible for the CI and build-servers to also create Fedora blobs.

If it already works on Fedora 23, I cannot imagine it taking much effort to get this going on Fedora 24, but as always, there might be some unforeseen roadblocks. Time will tell.

[agfp]

Same problem here.

When I try to build the cli for Fedora 24 I get the following error:

dotnet-install: Downloading https://dotnetcli.blob.core.windows.net/dotnet/Sdk/1.0.0-preview3-003215/dotnet-dev--x64.1.0.0-preview3-003215.tar.gz
dotnet-install: Calling: download https://dotnetcli.blob.core.windows.net/dotnet/Sdk/1.0.0-preview3-003215/dotnet-dev--x64.1.0.0-preview3-003215.tar.gz /tmp/dotnet.FTUQWdJGi
dotnet_install: Error: Download failed

[rimolive]

@agfp quit trying to build cli at this moment. Before cli other components must be built before, and that's what I'm working on. I'll let you know if I have any news.

[josteink]

Heads up: The following issue has some technical details which may be of help:

https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/10610

[livarcocc]

We support Fedora 24 in preview2.1.

[mickaelistria]

cool, thanks. Does performing the install steps from https://www.microsoft.com/net/core#fedora get preview2.1 ? I see the download only mention "preview2".

[ghost]

Install steps and links for Fedora 24 have not yet been updated.

[josteink]

I'm going to guess preview 2.1 is this one?

https://github.com/dotnet/core/releases/tag/v1.1.0-preview1

(And don't mind the version mentioned in the link...)

Those links leads to this download page, which again, only mentions Fedora 23:

https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/master/release-notes/preview-download.md

That said, I'm giving it a try. I'm fed up waiting :)

Edit: The Fedora 23 download link there still fails exactly the same way as before...