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dotnet build should print out a more helpful message when no lock file is present

See original GitHub issue

Steps to reproduce

git clone https://github.com/dotnet/cli cd cli\test\dotnet.Tests dotnet restore && dotnet test

Expected behavior

Failing run of tests with the message that the referenced P2P dependency was not restored.

Actual behavior

…\cli\test\dotnet.Tests>dotnet restore && dotnet test Project Microsoft.DotNet.InternalAbstractions does not have a lock file. Project Microsoft.DotNet.InternalAbstractions does not have a lock file.

Environment data

dotnet --info output:

.NET Command Line Tools (1.0.0-beta-002192)

Product Information:
 Version:     1.0.0-beta-002192
 Commit Sha:  47530fce56

Runtime Environment:
 OS Name:     Windows
 OS Version:  10.0.10586
 OS Platform: Windows
 RID:         win10-x64

Issues

Really bad error messages - this is too cryptic what needs to happen to fix it (cc: @blackdwarf)

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 7 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:14 (8 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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livarcocccommented, Nov 11, 2016

Which is why I moved to preview4.

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blackdwarfcommented, Nov 15, 2016

Just to add to this, the behavior on a Windows machine is even weirder since it will not fail, but will produce something unexepcted. On Windows, I guess that .NET 4.0 ref assemblies exist or MSBuild ends up using the GAC, so without a restore you will not see an error and an assembly will get produced, but it will not be what the user expects.