Microsoft.Diagnostics.Tracing.TraceEvent NuGet not compatible with single file apps?

[ppekrol]

Hi, my csproj to reproduce the issue is as simple as:

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">

  <PropertyGroup>
    <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
    <TargetFramework>net8.0</TargetFramework>
    <ImplicitUsings>enable</ImplicitUsings>
    <Nullable>enable</Nullable>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
	  <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Diagnostics.Tracing.TraceEvent" Version="2.0.77" />
  </ItemGroup>

</Project>

When I issue following command:

dotnet publish --configuration Release --runtime win-x64 --self-contained true /p:PublishSingleFile=true /p:IncludeNativeLibrariesForSelfExtract=true

All works fine and I'm ending up with 1 exe, but when I switch to linux-x64 (haven't checked other non-windows platforms)

dotnet publish --configuration Release --runtime linux-x64 --self-contained true /p:PublishSingleFile=true /p:IncludeNativeLibrariesForSelfExtract=true

Then I'm ending up with

Can I do something with this on my side or this needs to be handled on yours? Can you advise?

[cincuranet]

@brianrob We're now putting the native dependencies (like msdia) into build/native/amd64, etc. Maybe runtimes/{rid}/native (where rid would be win-x64, etc.) would be better place. That way it should not be selected for non-Windows publishes.

[ppekrol]

@cincuranet I think you are correct, our own package contains native libs and we are wrapping them up in 'runtimes'. Everything is working as expected then.

From my brief investigation it looks like those 3 directories do not even contain appropriate DLLs? The amd64 files are for windows-x64 and x86 one are for windows-x86? Nothing to do with linux there at all.

[cincuranet]

From my brief investigation it looks like those 3 directories do not even contain appropriate DLLs? The amd64 files are for windows-x64 and x86 one are for windows-x86? Nothing to do with linux there at all.

That's expected. These libraries are Windows-only.

[brianrob]

I believe that this is fixed in a newer version of TraceEvent. Can you please try this with the latest version? I believe the change you need is #1845.

[cincuranet]

I confirmed the same behavior with Microsoft.Diagnostics.Tracing.TraceEvent 3.1.10

[cincuranet]

Mea culpa. The amd64 folder is actually empty. 🤦‍♂️

[ppekrol]

With <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Diagnostics.Tracing.TraceEvent" Version="3.1.10" />
and dotnet publish --configuration Release --runtime linux-x64 --self-contained true /p:PublishSingleFile=true /p:IncludeNativeLibrariesForSelfExtract=true I'm getting

and the amd64 has

[cincuranet]

OK, I re-tested what I tested :) and now I do have files in amd64 as well. Go figure. That means the runtimes folder should be viable option.

I'll try to test it next week. Sounds good @brianrob?