`DotNetPublishSettings` is missing a way to set the `--os` option

[sfwester]

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Cake runner

Cake Frosting

Cake version

3.0.0

Operating system

Windows

Operating system architecture

64-Bit

CI Server

No response

What are you seeing?

Using dotnet version:

$ dotnet --version
6.0.404

when I run

$ dotnet publish --help
Description:
  Publisher for the .NET Platform

Usage:
  dotnet publish [<PROJECT | SOLUTION>...] [options]

Arguments:
  <PROJECT | SOLUTION>  The project or solution file to operate on. If a file is not specified, the command will search the current directory for one.

Options:
...
  --os <os>                            The target operating system.
...

I get an option to set the the target operating system.

However, DotNetPublishSettings.cs does not provide access to the option. (DotnetMSBuildSettings.cs does not either).

What is expected?

I should be able to set the target OS using the DotNetPublishSettings. e.g,

var publishSettings = new DotNetPublishSettings
{
    Os = "win"
};

Steps to Reproduce

var publishSettings = new DotNetPublishSettings
{
    Os = "win"
};

does not compile.

Output log

'DotNetPublishSettings' does not contain a definition for 'Os'

[Kuldeep-kd]

My question is, why is it relevant to add --os in the settings? And what are your expectations from this setting? If you need to use particular target os for the build, you might as well run build.ps1 or build.sh accordingly.

[sfwester]

Just to be sure we are are on the same page I am advocating adding the option to the DotNetPublishSettings class. The dotnet CLI already supports this option.

Specifies the target operating system (OS). This is a shorthand syntax for setting the Runtime Identifier (RID), where the provided value is combined with the default RID. For example, on a win-x64 machine, specifying --os linux sets the RID to linux-x64. If you use this option, don't use the -r|--runtime option. Available since .NET 6.

We use this option to output a windows executable even though we build on a unix box so I don't think calling build.ps1 will help me in this case.

However, reading the docs quoted above, it looks like I can get away with using the Runtime option in DotNetPublishSettings. May still be worth adding Os to get feature parity with the CLI.

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