alpha04 has following changes:
- libmi.so is not included in this package. It will be brough
as a separate nuget package later.
- all unix runtimes are replaced by generic unix runtimes to
enable easier builds on new unix platforms.
Submodule adds unnessesary complexity.
This commit removes dependency on pre-generated C# bindings.
Start-PsBuild -ResGen will call Start-ResGen.
It also has auto-detect logic to simplify first time expirience.
Instead of using `dotnet publish`, we can use `dotnet build` and the new
`netcoreapp1.0` framework with a new dependency on
`Microsoft.NETCore.App` to generate output that does not include the
runtime, but can be run anywhere (given the installation of the
runtime).
While we cannot yet adopt a dependency on the shared host until .NET
Core RTM, we are forced to switch to this system anyway because the
latest RC3 packages and CLI do not support `netstandardapp1.5`. See
dotnet/cli#2482.
Thus we're in an in-between state where we have to use `netcoreapp1.0`,
but cannot use `"Microsoft.NETCore.App": { "type": "platform" }` to
utilize the shared host, as we need to continue to ship our host.
Without specifying "platform", we retain the status quo with respect to
build steps and outputs.
Additionally, there is no longer a good reason to use the RC3 packages,
and it has been advised we switch to RC2 since the
`Microsoft.NETCore.App` is only available for RC2. We must update
packages because our current version can no longer be debugged.
Specifically this enables us to leverage `dotnet-resgen` to
auto-generate the `resx` files into `resources` files for the default
culture, which are then compiled into the SMA assembly.
This requires a change to the C# bindings. The Windows build system
takes `file.resx` and compiles `file.resources`, but CLI prepends the
assembly name, thus compiling `SMA.file.resources`. So the resource
manager in the generated bindings must be adjusted to look for
`SMA.file` instead of `file`.
Note that C# bindings cannot yet be auto-generated.
Given localized resources of the form `file.en-US.resx`, `dotnet-resgen`
will create a satellite assembly and publish it to
`en-US/SMA.resources.dll`, so #666 will not be a technical problem.
The primary reason to do this is that the VS Code debugger is not
compatible with rc2.
Secondarily, we want to continue tracking CoreCLR/FX master branch,
which means to continue with the latest release candidates. Since we are
releasing in August, we will be able to pick up the converged RTM
version before release.
The only advantage of rc2 is that it is frozen; but we have this anyway
because we snap to particular builds.
Dongbo Wang