Created a build script that compiles MESS and then prepares release .zip files for several platforms (Windows 32/64 bit and Linux 64 bit).

Author: pwitvoet

make_release.ps1

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+$platforms = @{ name = 'win64';   profile = 'Windows64bit.pubxml'; runtime = 'win-x64'   },
+             @{ name = 'win32';   profile = 'Windows32bit.pubxml'; runtime = 'win-x86'   },
+             @{ name = 'linux64'; profile = 'Linux64bit.pubxml';   runtime = 'linux-x64' }
+
+# Build all platform variants:
+foreach ($platform in $platforms) {
+    # NOTE: dotnet publish doesn't handle .pubxml files correctly, hence all the extra arguments here:
+    dotnet publish .\MESS\MESS.csproj -c Release -f net6.0 -r $($platform.runtime) --self-contained true -p:PublishSingleFile=true -p:PublishTrimmed=true --output .\MESS\bin\Release\net6.0\publish\$($platform.runtime)
+}
+
+# Create release zip files:
+$version = (Get-Item .\MESS\bin\Release\net6.0\publish\win-x64\MESS.exe).VersionInfo.ProductVersion
+foreach ($platform in $platforms) {
+    # Create output directory:
+    $output_dir = (Join-Path (Get-Location) "Releases\${version}\mess_${version}_$($platform.name)")
+    Write-Host $output_dir
+    [System.IO.Directory]::CreateDirectory($output_dir)
+
+    # Copy files (executables, config files, template entities and template maps):
+    Copy-Item -Path .\MESS\bin\Release\net6.0\publish\$($platform.runtime)\* -Destination $output_dir
+    Copy-Item -Path .\files\* -Destination $output_dir
+    Copy-Item -Path .\template_entities -Destination $output_dir\template_entities -Recurse -Container
+    Copy-Item -Path .\template_maps -Destination $output_dir\template_maps -Recurse -Container
+}
+
+# Run MESS.exe to generate the mess.fgd file:
+& ".\Releases\${version}\mess_${version}_win64\MESS.exe" -log off
+
+foreach ($platform in $platforms) {
+    $output_dir = (Join-Path (Get-Location) "Releases\${version}\mess_${version}_$($platform.name)")
+
+    # Copy the mess.fgd file that was just generated by MESS:
+    if ($platform.name -ne 'win64') {
+        Copy-Item -Path .\Releases\${version}\mess_${version}_win64\mess.fgd -Destination $output_dir
+    }
+
+    # Zip it:
+    Compress-Archive -Force -CompressionLevel Optimal -Path $output_dir -DestinationPath "${output_dir}.zip"
+}