.NET 5.0 RC2 - self-contained build on Linux - version missing in generated file

[rasmk]

Already reported on RC2 (microsoft/dotnet#1258), but it was closed without any action.

When I build a self-contained app on Linux (in a Docker container), targeted to win-64, the generated exe file misses version, copyright, and other information. When built on Windows, the information is built into the exe file as expected.

[wli3]

When build on Linux, SDK does not have access to all Windows APIs needed to set PE bites

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[wli3]

To runtime team, I think we've talked about having a crossplatform API to write PE bites. What's the progress?

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Issue Details

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Already reported on RC2 (microsoft/dotnet#1258), but it was closed without any action.

When I build a self-contained app on Linux (in a Docker container), targeted to win-64, the generated exe file misses version, copyright, and other information. When built on Windows, the information is built into the exe file as expected.

Author:	rasmk
Assignees:	-
Labels:	area-Host, untriaged
Milestone:	-

[vitek-karas]

This is currently by design - there's a master issue for this somewhere (can't find it right now). Basically the root cause is that SDK uses Windows API to update native resources for windows executables. These APIs are obviously not available on Linux and instead of failing it will just "skip" that step. This applies to all native resources, so version information, manifests, icons, ...

[rseanhall]

#3828?

[agocke]

That looks right to me