Skip to content

Simple SDK for custom artifacts (EXEs / DLLs) generated by external tool #653

@tesfabpel

Description

@tesfabpel

I'm trying to use the Microsoft.Build.NoTargets SDK to generate a project that builds a Rust cdylib (.dll / .so) and produces the following artifacts:

  • foo.dll
  • foo.pdb
  • ...

What I'd like is to have a way to specify all of this in the most elegant way (not just tied to Rust) but the Microsoft.Build.NoTargets SDK explicitly disables the GetTargetPath target (and other stuff) and it makes you import the SDK manually (instead of just using <Project Sdk="...">) because it's intended to be a way to just launch some tools that produce no artifacts / assemblies.

So it would be nice to have a minimal SDK that just invokes two main targets (Build and Clean) and a target that allows specifying which generated files are to be copied transitively (with a folder structure relative from the build directory, like BUILD/res/foo.bin).

My concrete goal is to have a Rust (or Zig / whatever) native DLL project (libfoo-rs) that is referenced by a C# wrapper project (LibFoo) that gets used by a C# Exe project (FooApp) such that when running FooApp in VS, everything gets copied in the final Output directory.

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    No labels
    No labels

    Type

    No type

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions