MAUI, iOS simulator. "ResolveNativeReferences" exception.

Package

Sentry.Maui

.NET Version

6.0.0 (or 7.0.0)

OS

iOS

SDK Version

3.23.1-preview.3

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a new MAUI project.
2. Open .csproj-file.
3. Add a reference

<PackageReference Include="Sentry.Maui" Version="3.23.1-preview.3" />

1. Rebuild this project and try to run it on the iOS simulator.

Expected Result

Project should be successfully started.

Actual Result

This exception is thrown at compile time. It’s 100% about Sentry, cause with other packages I don’t get any errors.

Severity	Code	Description	Project	File	Line	Suppression State
Error	MSB4018	The "ResolveNativeReferences" task failed unexpectedly.
System.AggregateException: One or more errors occurred. ---> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified
   at System.Diagnostics.Process.StartWithCreateProcess(ProcessStartInfo startInfo)
   at Xamarin.Utils.Execution.<>c__DisplayClass24_1.<RunAsync>b__0() in /Users/builder/azdo/_work/1/s/xamarin-macios/tools/common/Execution.cs:line 103
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
   at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
   at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
   at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter`1.GetResult()
   at Xamarin.MacDev.Tasks.XamarinTask.<ExecuteAsync>d__24.MoveNext() in /Users/builder/azdo/_work/1/s/xamarin-macios/msbuild/Xamarin.MacDev.Tasks/Tasks/XamarinTask.cs:line 120
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.ThrowIfExceptional(Boolean includeTaskCanceledExceptions)
   at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Wait(Int32 millisecondsTimeout, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Wait()
   at Xamarin.MacDev.Tasks.ResolveNativeReferencesBase.ProcessSidecar(ITaskItem r, String resources, List`1 native_frameworks) in /Users/builder/azdo/_work/1/s/xamarin-macios/msbuild/Xamarin.MacDev.Tasks/Tasks/ResolveNativeReferencesBase.cs:line 134
   at Xamarin.MacDev.Tasks.ResolveNativeReferencesBase.Execute() in /Users/builder/azdo/_work/1/s/xamarin-macios/msbuild/Xamarin.MacDev.Tasks/Tasks/ResolveNativeReferencesBase.cs:line 105
   at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskExecutionHost.Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.ITaskExecutionHost.Execute()
   at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskBuilder.<ExecuteInstantiatedTask>d__26.MoveNext()
---> (Inner Exception #0) System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (0x80004005): The system cannot find the file specified
   at System.Diagnostics.Process.StartWithCreateProcess(ProcessStartInfo startInfo)
   at Xamarin.Utils.Execution.<>c__DisplayClass24_1.<RunAsync>b__0() in /Users/builder/azdo/_work/1/s/xamarin-macios/tools/common/Execution.cs:line 103
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
   at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
   at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
   at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter`1.GetResult()
   at Xamarin.MacDev.Tasks.XamarinTask.<ExecuteAsync>d__24.MoveNext() in /Users/builder/azdo/_work/1/s/xamarin-macios/msbuild/Xamarin.MacDev.Tasks/Tasks/XamarinTask.cs:line 120<---
	MauiApp2	C:\Program Files\dotnet\packs\Microsoft.iOS.Sdk\16.0.527\tools\msbuild\iOS\Xamarin.Shared.targets	137	

[mattjohnsonpint]

@bozau - Yes - Microsoft is working on this with xamarin/xamarin-macios#16001.

Also, I just developed a workaround we can use for Sentry. It’s not a general-purpose workaround for the whole issue, but it side-steps us running into it by preventing the resources zip file from being created to begin with. It will be released shortly. Thanks.

[mattjohnsonpint]

Not sure that we’re going to be able to workaround this one. Until Microsoft has a fix, I suggest one of the following:

• Develop on a Mac, which appear to always work
• Develop on Windows but deploy to a real device instead of the simulator using “hot restart”. (You’ll need our 3.24.0 release or greater.)
• Disable Sentry while developing on Windows
  • This may be difficult though, as you’d have to both conditionally exclude the package reference and any code using it.

If a workaround becomes apparent, we’ll add it. Thanks.