[CMake] Project referring to CSharp project generates incorrectly?

[Craig Scott]

Philip, thanks for the concise description of the problem. Would you be
willing to report this in CMake's gitlab as an issue so we can better track
it and refer to it in merge requests, etc.? You can report a new issue here:

https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/issues/new

Thanks


On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 1:59 AM, Tessier, Philip @ Engility via CMake <
cmake at cmake.org> wrote:

> All,
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
>
> I'm an experienced CMake user, in the C++ realm. I'm presently working
> outside that realm, porting a 200-project solution from Visual Studio
> (.vcxproj, .csproj) files to CMake. I'm very pleased that CMake has adopted
> CSharp! Thank you!
>
>
> I seem to have uncovered a bug where one CSharp project depends on another.
>
>
> The first CMakeLists.txt:
> cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.12)
> project(DockPanel CSharp)
> ...
> add_library(DockPanel MODULE ${SOURCES_files_Compile} ${SOURCES_files_
> EmbeddedResource})
> set_property(TARGET DockPanel APPEND PROPERTY VS_DOTNET_REFERENCES
> "System")
>
>
> The second CMakeLists.txt:
> cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.12)
> project(CSharpFramework CSharp)
> ...
> add_library(CSharpFramework MODULE ${SOURCES_files_Compile}
> ${SOURCES_files_EmbeddedResource})
> target_link_libraries(CSharpFramework PUBLIC $<$<CONFIG:Debug>:DockPanel>
>   )
> set_property(TARGET CSharpFramework APPEND PROPERTY VS_DOTNET_REFERENCES
> "System")
>
> (I haven't shown everything, as I'm extracting these from a huge system,
> but I can elaborate if necessary...)
>
> CMake configures and generates (to VS2015) without error. Things proceed
> as expected until it's time to link the second project.
> Then, I get:
> ..\DockPanel\Debug\DockPanel.dll : fatal error LNK1107: invalid or
> corrupt file: cannot read at 0x358
>
> A bit of investigative work shows that the generated
> CSharpFramework.vcxproj contains, as expected:
>     <ProjectReference Include="D:\Havok\hk2014_2_5_
> Simulation\Source\build-x64-msvc-v140-\Vision\Editor\
> vForge\DockPanel\DockPanel.vcxproj">
>       <Project>{DCCB7EE9-726F-3D42-A673-D6CCB4EF6675}</Project>
>       <Name>DockPanel</Name>
>     </ProjectReference>
>
> But, it also contains:
>     <Link>
>     <AdditionalDependencies>..\DockPanel\Release\DockPanel.dll;
> ...</AdditionalDependencies>
>     ...
>     </Link>
>
> The inclusion of DockPanel.dll in the AdditionalDependencies section is, I
> believe, causing Visual Studio to try to open it as a '.lib', and failing.
> I expected the generated .vcxproj to contain only the ProjectReference
> section for DockPanel, and not include it in AdditionalDependencies.
>
> Can you confirm that this is a bug?
>
> Thank you,
> Phil
>
>
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