When building installers without first building the rest of the repository (managed + native) in a previous build execution, the build fails as the installer build runs too early. This is probably not a problem as that's not a common workflow but with the VMR we need to be able to build the entire repository in one go.
The solution that I'm thinking of is adding a Traversal project that builds the installer projects and adding that to eng/Build.props at the very end with a BuildInParallel=false metadata so that it runs after everything else. The installer project will still build in parallel.
ViktorHofer
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4 hours ago
When building installers without first building the rest of the repository (managed + native) in a previous build execution, the build fails as the installer build runs too early. This is probably not a problem as that's not a common workflow but with the VMR we need to be able to build the entire repository in one go.
Blocks https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/pull/44828?new_mergebox=true
The solution that I'm thinking of is adding a Traversal project that builds the installer projects and adding that to eng/Build.props at the very end with a
BuildInParallel=falsemetadata so that it runs after everything else. The installer project will still build in parallel.