microsoft / microsoft/BuildXL

Cannot build Visual Studio plugin

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Description

Hello!

I am playing with BuildXL, I wanted to use it in my visual studio 2019.
In the documentation https://github.com/microsoft/BuildXL/blob/main/Documentation/Wiki/Installation.md there is a line on how to build a visual studio plugin, unfortunately running

.\bxl.cmd .\Out\Bin\debug\ide\*

does produce vsix files for visual studio only for vscode.

can anyone help me with this issue?

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Research direction

Start with Documentation/Wiki/Installation.md and the PowerShell command .\bxl.cmd .\Out\Bin\debug\ide*. Check how that command selects plugin outputs and compare the generated VSIX files with the Visual Studio 2019 requirement. Done means the documented build produces a Visual Studio 2019 plugin package, not only a VS Code package.

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Assessment

Tech stack
csharp, powershell
Domain
build-system, tooling
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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