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On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 03:27:51PM -0600, Thomas Frohwein wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is a port of MSBuild, the build system for .NET. lang/mono ships with
> xbuild which was an initial replacement for MSBuild, however since the more
> official integration of mono into .NET, xbuild has been deprecated by mono for
> several years now. Of note, that happened without MSBuild actually shipping
> with mono.
>
> At this point there is a growing list of .NET projects that only build with
> MSBuild. That's the raison d'etre for this port.
>
> This port is heavily inspired by FreeBSD's port which helped me simplify
> things
> and find some solutions. It bootstraps itself with a bundled MSBuild assembly
> that is invoked with mono, and pulls in a gargantuan (1G after extraction)
> amount of NuGet dependencies via a bundled NuGet assembly. I have created a
> separate tar.xz of those dependencies, so that it builds without internet
> connection.
>
> Passes make port-lib-depends-check and portcheck. I have built a few projects
> like the latest (upstream) version of games/openra which refuses to work with
> xbuild successfully. There are still a lot of projects that look for
> non-existant components which are likely included with Microsoft's dotnet/
> corefx/coreclr distributions.
>
> Other things of note about the port:
>
> - This is not the very latest version upstream, but newer ones seem to require
> dotnet CLI. It's the same as in FreeBSD's tree though.
> - Versioning is confusing between mono's 0.06, and the MSBuild versioning. I
> chose 15.8pre0 based on what FreeBSD does ("15.8-preview")
> - The license is MIT. There are 137 NuGet packages in the build. These are a
> mix of MIT, Apache-2.0, and Microsoft .NET library license [1]
> - 'make test' doesn't work at this point, therefore is disabled (see comment
> in
> Makefile)
>
> Thanks to bcallah@ for hosting the NuGet dependencies.
>
> Comments, concerns, ok's are welcome.
>
> [1] https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en/dotnet_library_license.htm
