How to -executeMethod NugetForUnity.NugetHelper.Restore on different path than project path

[darrenge]

There is a thread on the Game-CI about this too: game-ci/unity-builder#276 so I know others are seeing issues too.

I am on Windows 11; Unity 2020.3.25f1;

I am trying to do a restore of Nuget packages and it doesn't look like things are working.

$proc = Start-Process -FilePath "$editor" -ArgumentList "-projectPath $($projectPath) -logFile $($logFile.FullName) -batchMode -quit -wait -buildOutput $outDir -logDirectory $logDirectory -buildWindows64Player ./PerspectiveView.exe -executeMethod NugetForUnity.NugetHelper.Restore" -PassThru

After running this Start-Process, I still get errors that it is missing projects like the nuget was not restore. If I run Nuget.exe restore from $ProjectPath\Assets it works fine, so I know the Nuget restore works. Also, if I run Nuget.exe after this batchBuild call, the nuget packages are restored proving that the NugetHelper.Restore is not working.

[darrenge]

My NugetForUnity version is 3.0.5 and there isn't a new update so it is the latest and greatest.

[JoC0de]

The way Unity is working (when opening from command line):

1. runs the C# Compiler and compile the project Scripts (this fails on your side)
2. runs the -executeMethod specified
   so you need to add a second call of the unity-editor with -ignoreCompilerErrors that performs the nuget restore before performing the build see Restoring in CI pipeline #414 (comment)

[JoC0de]

I finally released the CLI for restoring packages before starting Unity Editor NuGetForUnity.Cli.