Source for GenerateFrameworkBuildFile.cs

[purkhusid]

Hey! Would it be possible to get the source for build\src\D2L.Build.BazelGenerator\Commands\GenerateFrameworkBuildFile.cs that is mentioned in the generated files in this repo?

[omsmith]

Hey @purkhusid!

It's part of a larger project of ours, but will look into extracting it.

[purkhusid]

That would be awesome! Thanks!

[omsmith]

We've extracted the function out into https://github.com/Brightspace/D2L.Build.BazelGenerator.

We'll have the admit that while the comment screams Don't edit it by hand!, the generator is not perfect (though we didn't necessarily try very hard to make it so) and we've had to massage the output. So, surely isn't usable as-is, but might be the basic idea for building something else.

But the basic logic:

• Read the DLLs from the reference assembly package
• Convert assembly references into deps
• Produce an import_library rule for each dll

It doesn't produce aliases which we added in by hand. And I believe there's some differences in the dependencies of what we actually committed to the framework files. Fully generating it was aspirational, but that was also a long time ago, so sorry for being fuzzy on the details.

Hope it helps.

[j3parker]

Thanks @omsmith ! Note that this comes from our internal code base where we read in our existing build (a combination of nant and custom stuff) and generate BUILD/WORKSPACE, so if it seems a little over-built that's why.

[purkhusid]

Thanks for doing this!