[Mono-dev] Current 'xbuild' status

[Jonathan Chambers]

Hello,
I am guessing xbuild is only supporting 2.0 for now. I am not sure how much
effort is needed to support 3.5/2008 projects.
Thanks,
Jonathan

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Leszek Ciesielski <skolima at gmail.com>wrote:

> using today's svn version, .proj file generated with "set
> MSBuildEmitSolution=1" trick:
>
> [mono] ~/mono_svn/EVEMon @ xbuild EVEMonCSharp.sln.proj
> XBuild Engine Version 0.1
> Mono, Version 2.5.0.0
> Copyright (C) Marek Sieradzki 2005. All rights reserved.
> MSBUILD: error MSBUILD0000:
> /root/mono_svn/EVEMon/EVEMonCSharp.sln.proj: Could not load file or
> assembly 'Microsoft.Build.Tasks.v3.5' or one of its dependencies. The
> system cannot find the file specified.
>
> (project is EVEMon, from svn://evemon.battleclinic.com/EVEMon/EVEMon/trunk
> )
>
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Ankit Jain <radical at gmail.com> wrote:
> > xbuild (svn) can't directly handle .sln files right now. But it can
> > build the temporary .proj that msbuild
> > generates for .sln files.
> >
> >   We can build the .sln.proj  with multiple projects. Its not
> > complete yet though.
> >   Currently, it generates the resources, satellite assemblies,
> >   resolves gac/assembly references, compiles, but doesn't deploy
> >   the referenced assemblies etc to the right location. But most of
> >   this will be work in the .targets .
> >   It should be easy to write a sln-> proj convertor.
> >
> > List of msbuild features from msdn (
> > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171452.aspx )
> > • Items
> >   ∘ Supported. These are used all over the place, so seems to work
> > fine for current test cases
> > • Properties
> >   ∘ Likewise
> > • Targets
> >   ∘ Implemented
> >   ∘ Including dependency checking, in the form of input/output list,
> > "DependsOnTargets" etc
> > • Tasks
> >   ∘ Implemented
> >   ∘ Most of the functionality in msbuild files are based on using
> > tasks. Custom tasks can be loaded
> > • Advanced Concepts
> >   ∘ Logging
> >      ‣ Implemented. But its not being used throughout the system
> > right now to report errors/warnings.
> >   ∘ Batching (
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171473(VS.80).aspx )
> >      ‣ Very important feature
> >      ‣ Both task and target batching have been implemented, and seem
> > to be working fine
> >   ∘ Transforms ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171476.aspx )
> >      ‣ Supported
> >   ∘ Using multiple processors (
> > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb383805.aspx )
> >      ‣ Nothing has been done for this yet
> > • Building for Specific .NET Frameworks (
> > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb397456.aspx )
> >   ∘ I've added some preliminary support for TargetFramework* stuff,
> > but this will need more work
> >   ∘ Similar work done in monodevelop should prove useful here
> > •  Others
> >   ∘ Project references, assembly, gac references are resolved
> >      ‣ I committed kinda preliminary code for this, which works fine
> > in the simple test cases (eg. pdn3) that I tried
> >
> > Ofcourse, most of this hasn't been tested extensively. I try to write
> > reasonable number of tests for the stuff
> > that I'm touching, but real testing would happen once the targets
> > files are more complete and we try real
> > world projects.
> >
> > Would be nice to start trying this out and get feedback/bug reports :)
> >
> > I'll be on vacation till end of next week, but will try to reply to
> mails.
> >
> > -Ankit
> >
> > --
> > Blog : http://www.ankitjain.org/blog
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