Populate reference Path before running Generating reference source

[Anipik]

Related to dotnet/runtime#34604

[safern]

Do we need this? I would expect people needs to do a vertical build before running this target. You need the source assembly in order to generate a ref assembly.

[safern]

Actually we do need this, now I see that I was the one that suggested it 😄

cc: @ericstj ?

[Anipik]

we can avoid this like dotnet/runtime@b18753a#diff-037531bd6f403e414dc011246d42d393R115

not sure if thats the correct way

[safern]

Yeah I was thinking about something similar as we only need ReferencePath for projects that have a ReferenceFromRuntime

[ericstj]

Double check that you don’t build ProjectReferences when calling this.

[ericstj]

... If you do, you can use CallTarget instead of DependsOnTargets and set the property which disables building the ProjectReference.

[Anipik]

i was not able to use callTarget because of this issue dotnet/msbuild#1006

[ericstj]

There are other options. What’s the experience right now? If I call This target what does it do WRT building ProjectReferences? (EG: we can call MSBuild on current project, ResolveReferences target passing BuildProjectReferences=false as global property, and get it's ouput)

[Anipik]

i am able to avoid this by 09b6f82#diff-154f708acf3f9e20aa7bc29fe50f4ff1R32

What’s the experience right now? If I call This target what does it do WRT building ProjectReferences?

It builds all the project references.

[Anipik]

cc @ViktorHofer

[ViktorHofer]

Would be nice to add tests at some point(tm)

[ViktorHofer]

Approving assuming you validated the experience in dotnet runtime

[Anipik]

Approving assuming you validated the experience in dotnet runtime

Yes