Build fails because of backward slash in the `ProjectDirectory`

[Arnab-Developer]

Problem

When I clone this repo and try to run the sample app, I got a build error.

Root cause

I opened the generated class and found backward slash in the ProjectDirectory.

/// <summary>
/// Returns the project directory.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>Value is: C:\repos\BuildInformation\LinkDotNet.BuildInformation.Sample\</remarks>
public const string ProjectDirectory = "C:\repos\BuildInformation\LinkDotNet.BuildInformation.Sample\";

C# does not allow backward slash in string. That is why the build process failed. Since I am using windows and that is why this problem happened.

Proposed solution

We need to replace the backward slash with a forward slash in the ProjectDirectory.

return !analyzer.GlobalOptions.TryGetValue("build_property.projectDir", out var projectDir)
    ? string.Empty
    : projectDir.Replace('\\', '/');

It should work for both windows and linux os.

You can check the fix here.

[linkdotnet]

Good catch - I would do that in another fashion to be safe:

SyntaxFactory.Literal(projectDir).ToString();

That should catch all cases (UNC Paths on god knows what other edge cases).

[linkdotnet]

Will push a change in 2 minutes and make a new release