How to specify Platform in DotNetBuild with Cake 3

[jpiechowiak]

Hi,

Im converting Xamarin app to Maui and for that reason I've switched to Cake 3 and DotNetBuild command.
In my iOS app csproj I've PropertyGroup defined like that:

<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Debug|iPhoneSimulator' ">

now I'm trying to build with following code:

var msBuildSettings = new DotNetMSBuildSettings()
  .WithTarget("Build")
  .WithProperty("ArchiveOnBuild", "True")
  .WithProperty("IpaPackageDir", ipaPackageDir)
  .WithProperty("Platform", platform);

DotNetBuild("mycsproj.csproj", new DotNetBuildSettings{
  NoRestore = true,
  Configuration = configuration,
  MSBuildSettings = msBuildSettings
});

But It looks that Platform is not recognised correctly.
According to this issue dotnet/sdk#9966

something like this suppose to be working:
dotnet build /p:Platform=iPhoneSimulator

Any ideas how to achieve this in Cake?

[nils-a]

@jpiechowiak can you elaborate on what "recognize" means in your question?

The example you gave will produce something akin to the following "C:/Program Files/dotnet/dotnet.exe" build "mycsproj.csproj" --configuration Release --no-restore /target:Build /property:ArchiveOnBuild=True /property:IpaPackageDir=[ipaPackageDir] /property:Platform=[platform]

The code you provided will set a property named Platform to the given value during build. There is no "recognizing" involved or needed.

I would suggest you try to build your app "manually", using dotnet build. If you have a working commandline, people here can certainly help you to create a Cake script that generates the required commandline.

[jpiechowiak]

Ok. In general I want to match specific PropertyGroup from sample based on value provided for configuration and platform (maybe 'recognise' wasn't a perfect word:)

So it suppose to be
Configuration=Release
Platform=iPhoneSimulator

In my csproj I've two PropertyGroup.
First Release|iPhone
Second Release|iPhoneSimulator.

In my scenario first group is matched (based only on configuration). For provided data it should be second one.
But based on output you provided, parameters seems to look correct.

I will try again tomorrow.

[nils-a]

Hint: You can show the commands "created" by cake by adding the --settings_showprocesscommandline=true argument when running cake.

[jpiechowiak]

After further investigation, it looks like that it is probably not related to Cake, but some botnet issues.
@nils-a thanks for hint with argument. It helped me to know what is going on.