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dotnet build fails to generate TypeGeneration.cs on linux

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Since the removal of TypeGeneration.cs file in e1c83dfdb0c6b6cfd8d8655f22c77019b5b30787, I cannot build the project on Linux. Obviously, I don’t have the VisualStudio to generate the file, and I cannot figure out if there is a combination of options to do it using only dotnet/msbuild. Here’s what I get:

motus@motus-xps13:~/devel/TorchSharp/Tester:master$ dotnet run
Program.cs(5,20): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'FloatTensor' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) [/home/motus/devel/TorchSharp/Tester/Tester.csproj]

The build failed. Please fix the build errors and run again.
motus@motus-xps13:~/devel/TorchSharp/Tester:master$ dotnet --version
2.1.403

I think @NiklasGustafsson has the same problem. @migueldeicaza, do you know how to fix it? Thank you!

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:7 (7 by maintainers)

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mhutchcommented, Nov 2, 2018

FWIW it’s generally necessary to check in the output of tt files. This is because they follow the model of design-time generation (think winforms designer files) rather than the more modern build integrated generation used by e.g. xaml. It would be possible to change the generation model once an msbuild task existed, like in the issue I linked.

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mhutchcommented, Nov 1, 2018

The Mono.TextTemplating NuGet includes a net4x version of TextTransform.exe in the tools folder, so you could run that using mono. This is the same T4 engine that VSMac and MonoDevelop use.

A more complete solution would probably involve fixing https://github.com/mono/t4/issues/12