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The objective

Build the solution for the complete set of 9 supported platforms with a single command.

This should preferably be executable from a shell script so that a single instruction can be used to build, package and publish on all platforms.

The problems

  1. There is no 'publish all' option in Visual Studio. Which is just wierd. It should not be necessary to futz about with scripts at all

  2. Customizing the code for different platforms requires different support libraries. For the purpose of debugging the publish bug, the project is using a configuration limited to win-x64 for net5.0-windows.

  3. Running publish from the command line causes the wrong build configfuration to be used and the files to be written to a different location

The publication file publish-win-x64.pubxml is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!--
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=208121. 
-->
<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <Configuration>Release</Configuration>
    <Platform>x64</Platform>
    <PublishDir>..\..\Outputs\win-x64</PublishDir>
    <PublishProtocol>FileSystem</PublishProtocol>
    <TargetFramework>net5.0-windows</TargetFramework>
    <RuntimeIdentifier>win-x64</RuntimeIdentifier>
    <SelfContained>true</SelfContained>
    <PublishSingleFile>True</PublishSingleFile>
    <PublishReadyToRun>True</PublishReadyToRun>
    <PublishTrimmed>True</PublishTrimmed>
  </PropertyGroup>
</Project>

When the Publish command is used from within Visual Studio, it correctly builds the three applications and copies them to:

C:\Users\hallam\Work\mmm\Outputs\win-x64

When msbuild is used from the command line:

PS C:\Users\hallam\Work\mmm> msbuild mmm.sln /p:PublishProfile=publish-win-x64

The files are instead written to:

"C:\Users\hallam\Work\mmm\Applications\serviceadmin\bin\Debug\net5.0-windows\win-x64\serviceadmin.exe"

Additional issues

The documentation for dotnet publish and msbuild are terrible. Both assume I am publishing a Web site using ASP. I am merely trying to build the same program on multiple platforms with separate per-platform customizations.

Both are confused and often innacurate.

PS C:\Users\hallam\Work\mmm> msbuild mmm.sln /p:PublishProfile=publish-win-x64 /p:deployOnBuild=true