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Port PowerShell resgen template generator to C# #1344
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Travis Plunk (@TravisEz13), sergei (@vors) is this in progress?
Nope
This is blocking building on new platforms, i.e. Ubuntu 16.04
Reacted by Joel BennettTravis to pick this up after latest test runs
Chatted with Travis today, he said he would not have time to work on it. Assigning to myself.
Currently our PowerShell build module has become a hard dependency to build PowerShell, as it generates the C# bindings from resource files (replacing
resgen). This makes bootstrapping on platforms where we don't yet have PowerShell a pain (you have to generate the files elsewhere and bring them over).It should be fairly straightforward to port this generation into a simple .NET Core project that our build script simply delegates to, bringing
Start-PSBuildback to a convenience function (i.e. just runs a fewcmakeanddotnetcommands).I think this should be done sooner than later because bootstrapping on other platforms needs to be doable by the average developer.
/cc John W. Fawcett (@FawcettJohnW) sergei (@vors) A (@ealexjordan) Jason Shirk (@lzybkr)