FSharpLint.MSBuild on .NET Core results in StackOverflowException

Description

When adding FSharpLint.MSBuild to a F# .NET Core project, building the project results in a StackOverflowException

Repro steps

Please provide the steps required to reproduce the problem

1. Open Visual Studio 2017

2. File -> New Project -> Visual F# -> .NET Core -> Class Library (.NET Core)

3. Add FSharpLint.MSBuild NuGet package version 0.9.0.

4. Try building the project.

Expected behavior

The build succeeds and the project is linted correctly.

Actual behavior

The build fails with an error:

Severity	Code	Description	Project	File	Line	Suppression State
Error		Exception: Lint failed while analysing D:\Users\Erik\Documents\Persoonlijk\Programmeren\playground\FSharp\ClassLibrary1\ClassLibrary1.fsproj.
Failed with: error parsing ProjectCrackerTool output, stdoutput was:

stderr was:

Process is terminated due to StackOverflowException.

Stack trace:    at Microsoft.FSharp.Compiler.SourceCodeServices.ProjectCracker.GetProjectOptionsFromProjectFileLogged(String projectFileName, FSharpOption`1 properties, FSharpOption`1 loadedTimeStamp, FSharpOption`1 enableLogging)
   at FSharpLint.Application.Lint.getProjectFileInfo(String projectFilePath)
   at FSharpLint.Application.Lint.lintProject(OptionalLintParameters optionalParams, String projectFilePath, FSharpOption`1 progress)
   at FSharpLint.Application.FSharpLintWorker.RunLint(String projectFile, OptionalLintParameters options, FSharpOption`1 progress)
   at FSharpLint.MSBuild.AppDomain.LintRunner.Lint(String projectFile)
   at FSharpLint.MSBuild.AppDomain.LintRunner.Lint(String projectFile)
   at FSharpLint.MSBuild.Proxy.Lint()
   at FSharpLint.MSBuild.FSharpLintTask.Execute()
	ClassLibrary1	D:\Users\Erik\Documents\Persoonlijk\Programmeren\playground\FSharp\ClassLibrary1\ClassLibrary1.fsproj	1	

Known workarounds

None

Related information

• Operating system: Windows 10
• Branch: version 0.9.0
• .NET Runtime: CoreCLR

[ErikSchierboom]

I have updated my .NET Core SDK to 2.1.104, and my previous error has been replaced by a new one (the same as @richardjharding):

/Users/erikschierboom/.nuget/packages/fsharplint.msbuild/0.9.0/build/FSharpLint.MSBuild.targets(16,5): error MSB4062: The "FSharpLintTask" task could not be loaded from the assembly /Users/erikschierboom/.nuget/packages/fsharplint.msbuild/0.9.0/build/../tools/FSharpLint.MSBuild.dll. Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Build.Utilities.v4.0, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'. The system cannot find the file specified. [/Users/erikschierboom/Programming/exercism/fsharp/exercises/accumulate/Accumulate.fsproj]
/Users/erikschierboom/.nuget/packages/fsharplint.msbuild/0.9.0/build/FSharpLint.MSBuild.targets(16,5): error MSB4062:  Confirm that the <UsingTask> declaration is correct, that the assembly and all its dependencies are available, and that the task contains a public class that implements Microsoft.Build.Framework.ITask. [/Users/erikschierboom/Programming/exercism/fsharp/exercises/accumulate/Accumulate.fsproj]

[duckmatt]

Thanks for raising this, and sorry for the very delayed response! The MSBuild task has been deprecated, the linter is now best run as dotnet tool or via Ionide