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DjangoReinhard

opened on Jun 9, 2023

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Hi,

I followed build instructions on debian stable (11) and got this error:

>>>> xbuild tool is deprecated and will be removed in future updates, use msbuild instead <<<<

MSBUILD: error MSBUILD0004: Too many project files specified

make[2]: *** [Makefile:1008: restore-packages] Fehler 1
make[2]: Verzeichnis „/usr/local/src/dotdevelop/main“ wird verlassen
make[1]: *** [Makefile:548: all-recursive] Fehler 1
make[1]: Verzeichnis „/usr/local/src/dotdevelop/main“ wird verlassen
make: *** [Makefile:54: all-recursive] Fehler 1

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1. knocte commented on Jun 9, 2023

   

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   Debian doesn't have packages for msbuild and I believe msbuild is a requirement for building dotdevelop.
2. DjangoReinhard commented on Jun 9, 2023

   

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   If that's true, what about to add it to build requirements?

   ... any way:
   I installed msbuild from source, build succeeded without errors or warnings, but it did not change anything respect to dotdevelop
3. knocte commented on Jun 9, 2023

   

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   If you still see this:

   >>>> xbuild tool is deprecated and will be removed in future updates, use msbuild instead <<<<
   

   It means the build is still not using msbuild. Maybe run configure again?

   If that's true, what about to add it to build requirements?

   True that, open a PR?
4. DjangoReinhard commented on Jun 9, 2023

   

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   Maybe run configure again?
   Of cause, I did that before posting

   I actually removed the entire source tree and restarted from scratch ...
   ... but it looks like some of github servers have problems and "git submodule update" run into timeouts.

   I reply when I can rerun build process.
5. knocte commented on Jun 17, 2023

   

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   How did it go mate?
6. DjangoReinhard commented on Jun 17, 2023

   

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   Thank you for the reminder!

   Unfortunately the problem with the timeout still exists (RefactoringEssentials and others).
   Its not possible to run the "git submodule update ..."
7. macias commented on Jun 20, 2023

   

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   I have the same error. I have multitple .Net SDKs installed (with MSBuild.dll) but it seems DotDevelop makefiles do not see any of them. Another thing is that running MSBuild.dll directly gives an error, so it should be run via "dotnet msbuild".

   openSUSE 15.3
8. knocte commented on Jun 21, 2023

   

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   dotdevelop cannot be built with .NET SDKs (formerly called ".NETCore", now called .NETv5 or newer). When I recommended to use msbuild I was referring to mono's msbuild package (which is equivalent to the old version of .NET: v.4.x).

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9. peetervois commented on Jan 3, 2025

   

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   Happy New Year ! Any links to how to repeat the solution might be helpful. I am facing same issue and am looking to how to build dotdevelop. Thanx.
10. MakiWolf commented on Jan 4, 2025

    

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    This error happens when using old mono packages from linux distributions. Since mono has made their own fork of msbuild, they have deprecated xbuild. Xbuild seems to have an error with too many project files. Also xbuild support has been removed in monodevelop, when searching for it in commits and pull request history.

    The last needed mono packages for building dotdevelop are available here:

    https://www.mono-project.com/download/stable/#download-lin

    Also you can take a look at CI Manifest:

    https://github.com/dotdevelop/dotdevelop/blob/main/.github/workflows/monodevelop.yml

    I have tested it now and it seems to build without problems.

    And now mono development have moved to wine gitlab:

    https://gitlab.winehq.org/mono/mono

    But they have not released anything yet. Or have forked msbuild which is needed for building dotdevelop yet.

    Source Code for msbuild mono fork was here:

    https://github.com/mono/linux-packaging-msbuild

    https://github.com/mono/msbuild

    A next step would also be to see which changes are needed for building it from the new wine monos repo to build msbuild on linux.

    Reacted by Lex Li and lytico

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