iOS deployment hangs forever at XamarinDownloadArchives task

[ManuLin]

We are currently facing an issue when trying to locally deploy and debug our .NET MAUI app using the most recent version of the barcode scanning library. While deployment and debugging works smoothly on Android devices, the iOS build task seems to hang forever when attempting to extract the package "GAppM-10.24.0" as part of the XamarinDownloadArchives task. Has anyone faced a similar issue?

As far as I've figured out, downgrading the Xamarin.Build.Download package to version 0.8.0 (or even lower) might mitigate this issue, this is however not really an option, as AdamE.MLKit.iOS.BarcodeScanning package demands for version 0.11.0 or higher. Somehow I'm stuck at this point...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60453145/the-xamarindownloadarchives-task-could-not-be-initialized-with-its-input-param

[rettigcd]

I am experiencing the same issue.

[rettigcd]

I found the problem on my machine. I am building on Windows 10 which has a maximum path length of 260 characters. XamarindDownloadArchives cannot extract GAppM-10.24.0 because the path of some of the resulting files would be too long.

[TheFerrango]

If you try and compile it from the CLI with maximum verbosity and manually terminate the 7z process you'll find it tells you what it was trying to do.
Unpacking failed. Please download 'https ://dl.google.com/firebase/ios/analytics/cc4d75392af34c62/GoogleAppMeasurement-10.24.0.tar.gz' and extract it to the '%userprofile%\AppData\Local\XamarinBuildDownloadCache \GAppM-10.24.0' directory and create an empty file called '%userprofile%\AppData\Local\XamarinBuildDownloadCache\GAppM-10.24.0.unpacked'.

Do that and recompile the app, and it will magically work. The issue is with either the GAppM package or the 7z extractor