Do we need this? I would expect people needs to do a vertical build before running this target. You need the source assembly in order to generate a ref assembly.

Actually we do need this, now I see that I was the one that suggested it 😄

cc: @ericstj ?

we can avoid this like dotnet/runtime@b18753a#diff-037531bd6f403e414dc011246d42d393R115

not sure if thats the correct way

Yeah I was thinking about something similar as we only need ReferencePath for projects that have a ReferenceFromRuntime

Double check that you don’t build ProjectReferences when calling this.

... If you do, you can use CallTarget instead of DependsOnTargets and set the property which disables building the ProjectReference.

i was not able to use callTarget because of this issue dotnet/msbuild#1006

There are other options. What’s the experience right now? If I call This target what does it do WRT building ProjectReferences? (EG: we can call MSBuild on current project, ResolveReferences target passing BuildProjectReferences=false as global property, and get it's ouput)

i am able to avoid this by 09b6f82#diff-154f708acf3f9e20aa7bc29fe50f4ff1R32

What’s the experience right now? If I call This target what does it do WRT building ProjectReferences?

It builds all the project references.