Nuget package error in C++ Projects

[keroiber]

Hello,

the openssl-native.targets file in the build folder is for donet projects. As it is located directly in the build folder it is included in each project, regardless of the project type. So it is also included in .vcproj files. There it causes an error while loading the project because TargetFrameworkVersion is not defined (empty) and thus .Substring(0,2) is not valid.

[vrogier]

Hi,

That sounds weird. What VS version are you using ?
I never had the issue you are describing when using the nuget with vcxproj projects.

Regards,

Vincent

[keroiber]

Thanks for the quick response!

I am using VS 2022

Ok, I did some further investigation. It looks like the build/native folder is not even documented for NuGet. But if that folder exists, the VisualStudio NuGet integration uses only files from that folder for c++ projects. In case of dotnet projects the documentation says that it always imports the files from the build folder, independent of the framework.

My problem is that I use paket for installing the nuget packages, as it maintains one version of each package for the whole repository - I don't have to update the nuget packages in every project separately.
And paket always imports the files from the build folder, too - as it is documented for dotnet.

So to solve my issue I would need a fix in paket.
But maybe you could make the .target file in the build folder more robust in a way that it does nothing for native projects?

Regards
Bernhard

[vrogier]

I will update the target file for .net projects with conditions to suppress side effects for C++ projects.