The split between desktop and dotnet msbuild in build.ps1 adds unnecessary complexity to the build
Open
area-infrastructure
Priority:2
- Dominant language
- C#
- Stars
- 38.4k
- Forks
- 10.9k
- Avg merge
- 2d 10h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 281
Description
With https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore/pull/58987, the entire repository can be built with a single build invocation on Windows: `eng\build.cmd -msbuildengine vs -restore -all -pack -publish -BuildInstallers` (that's what we use in the VMR to build aspnetcore).
The same should be possible when using dotnet msbuild as the entry-point by isolating the components that require desktop msbuild (vcxproj and wixproj) and building them with a shelled-out VS Dev Command Prompt which has desktop msbuild on the path. We do that in dotnet/runtime for similar VS only tools.
Contributor guide
Assessment
This issue has not been assessed yet.