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How to include MSBUILD dependencies? #337
Description
When you get the FSharp.Compiler.Service NuGet package and install it as part of some application on Azure VM, the application will fail, because F# Compiler Service depends on MSBUILD assemblies that are not part of .NET Framework:
- Microsoft.Build
- Microsoft.Build.Engine
- Microsoft.Build.Framework
- Microsoft.Build.Utilities.v12.0
- Microsoft.Build.Tasks.v12.0
This is a bit unfortunate, because it measn that FSharp.Compiler.Service will not work on non-dev machines. I'm not sure what the best solution is?
- Bundle the libraries with FSharp.Compiler.Service NuGet package? (but it's about 5 MB that most people won't need...)
- Have a NuGet dependency? (if MSBUILD was on NuGet... which I don't think it is)
- ILMERGE ALL THE THINGS! (that is, just the MSBUILD assemblies using the nice ILMerge tool that sometimes does not crash...)
- Give up and tell people to install MSBUILD on their deployment machines?
[See also my comment in: https://github.com/fsharp/fsharp/pull/409]
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7sharp9 commentedon Apr 28, 2015
The msbuild 12 bits are for the project file cracking stuff, but msbuild is also used for reference resolution. Why would that never be installed?
tpetricek commentedon Apr 28, 2015
MSBUILD is now (well, for the last 3 years) a part of Visual Studio and so we cannot expect it to be installed...
7sharp9 commentedon Apr 28, 2015
These are the bits that added the v12 dependencies: https://github.com/fsharp/FSharp.Compiler.Service/blob/master/src/fsharp/vs/service.fs#L2336-L2454
7sharp9 commentedon Apr 28, 2015
I have a pcl version of FCS that Im working on that has no msbuild dependencies, not yet finished I might add.
dsyme commentedon Apr 29, 2015
I suppose the appropriate DLLs should be bundled as part of the FCS package for now, that seems reasonable, similar to here: fsharp/fsharp#409. Could you send a PR to adjust?
skip unloadable interfaces
cognociente commentedon Sep 25, 2015
It seems that the intention here was to add the relevant MSBUILD dependencies/dlls into the FSCS nuget package - this does not seem to have been implemented though as my usage of FSCS via nuget has just downloaded fsharp.compiler.services.dll.
simra commentedon Oct 7, 2015
Up-vote for this issue. simra/IfSharp#7.
I'll try the options suggested in #424.
rneatherway commentedon Dec 2, 2015
This should be addressed by #470.