Auto adding references/dependencies?

[nomi-san]

I'm trying to build a winforms code using .NET 7 shared DLLs.

using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;

Application.Run(new Form());

Build command:

$ cd dotnet-sdk-7.0.101-win-x64\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App\7.0.1
$ bflat build main.cs -r System.Windows.Forms.dll --ldflags "/subsystem:windows"

Output:

...Failed to load assembly 'System.Windows.Forms.Primitives'

# added -r System.Windows.Forms.Primitives.dll
...Failed to load assembly 'System.Drawing.Common'

# added -r System.Drawing.Common.dll
...Failed to load assembly 'Accessibility'
...Failed to load assembly 'Microsoft.Win32.SystemEvents'

Finally, it's done after I added all missing dependencies by hand 😪

-r System.Windows.Forms.dll
-r System.Windows.Forms.Primitives.dll
-r System.Drawing.Common.dll
-r Accessibility.dll
-r Microsoft.Win32.SystemEvents.dll

I hope it should support as the title says,

or at least the -r option allows *.dll 😀

[graysuit]

Same question. Interested to know answer.

[xiaoyuvax]

same suffering, expecting the ability to automatically parse .csproj file to search for codes resources and dependencies.
or at least wildcard(*) support and including all subfolders r prefered.

[xiaoyuvax]

I have written a tiny program to parse .csproj file for all code files/project/package references/dependencies/resources,etc, starting from a root .csproj file to generate building script for bflat (in .bat or .sh). So far it works on simple projects but has issues on complicated projects (mainly due to dependency version incompatibility and some limit or limited knowledge of bflat and on how bflat deal with all these - need more doc).

Check it out at https://github.com/xiaoyuvax/bflata (build it with bflat is recommended)