Ios build fails in Azure

[Nilsson-S24]

Description

Running build targeting ios in Azure pipeline after signing in build step appsettings.json : error : The path '../../../../../../../work/1/s/[NAME]/appsettings.json' would result in a file outside of the app bundle and cannot be used. [/Users/runner/work/1/s/[NAME]/[NAME].csproj] appsettings.json : error : [/Users/runner/work/1/s/[NAME]/[NAME].App.csproj] Web/typescript/package-lock.json : error : The path '../../../../../../../work/1/s/[NAME]/Web/typescript/package-lock.json' would result in a file outside of the app bundle and cannot be used. [/Users/runner/work/1/s/[NAME]/[NAME].App.csproj] Web/typescript/package-lock.json : error : [/Users/runner/work/1/s/[NAME]/[NAME].App.csproj] Web/typescript/package.json : error : The path '../../../../../../../work/1/s/[NAME].App/Web/typescript/package.json' would result in a file outside of the app bundle and cannot be used. [/Users/runner/work/1/s/[NAME].App/[NAME].App.csproj] Web/typescript/package.json : error : [/Users/runner/work/1/s/[NAME].App/[NAME].App.csproj] Web/typescript/tsconfig.json : error : The path '../../../../../../../work/1/s/[NAME].App/Web/typescript/tsconfig.json' would result in a file outside of the app bundle and cannot be used. [/Users/runner/work/1/s/[NAME].App/[NAME].App.csproj] Web/typescript/tsconfig.json : error : [/Users/runner/work/1/s/[NAME].App/[NAME].App.csproj]

identifier changed to [NAME]

This stops the build process ...

Steps to Reproduce

Setup build pipe , I used the following template

trigger:

• master

pool: vmImage: macos-latest

steps:

• task: InstallAppleCertificate@2 inputs: certSecureFile: 'MyDistributionCertificate.p12' certPwd: '$(certificatePassword)' keychain: 'temp'

• task: InstallAppleProvisioningProfile@1 inputs: provisioningProfileLocation: 'secureFiles' provProfileSecureFile: 'MyProvisioningProfile.mobileprovision'

• task: UseDotNet@2 inputs: packageType: 'sdk' version: '6.x'

• task: CmdLine@2 displayName: 'dotnet workload install maui' inputs: script: 'dotnet workload install maui'

• task: DotNetCoreCLI@2 displayName: 'dotnet publish (Release)' inputs: command: 'publish' publishWebProjects: false projects: 'MyMAUIProject.sln' arguments: '-f:net6.0-ios -c:Release /p:ArchiveOnBuild=true /p:EnableAssemblyILStripping=false' zipAfterPublish: false modifyOutputPath: false

• task: CopyFiles@2 inputs: SourceFolder: '$(Agent.BuildDirectory)' Contents: '**/*.ipa' TargetFolder: '$(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)' flattenFolders: true

• task: PublishBuildArtifacts@1 inputs: PathtoPublish: '$(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)' ArtifactName: 'drop' publishLocation: 'Container'

Set up signing .

Run pipe .

Link to public reproduction project repository

Version with bug

6.0.486 (current)

Last version that worked well

Unknown/Other

Affected platforms

iOS

Affected platform versions

macos-latest , Ios

Did you find any workaround?

No

Relevant log output

appsettings.json : error : The path '../../../../../../../work/1/s/[NAME]/appsettings.json' would result in a file outside of the app bundle and cannot be used. [/Users/runner/work/1/s/[NAME]/[NAME].csproj]
appsettings.json : error :          [/Users/runner/work/1/s/[NAME]/[NAME].App.csproj]
Web/typescript/package-lock.json : error : The path '../../../../../../../work/1/s/[NAME]/Web/typescript/package-lock.json' would result in a file outside of the app bundle and cannot be used. [/Users/runner/work/1/s/[NAME]/[NAME].App.csproj]
Web/typescript/package-lock.json : error :          [/Users/runner/work/1/s/[NAME]/[NAME].App.csproj]
Web/typescript/package.json : error : The path '../../../../../../../work/1/s/[NAME].App/Web/typescript/package.json' would result in a file outside of the app bundle and cannot be used. [/Users/runner/work/1/s/[NAME].App/[NAME].App.csproj]
Web/typescript/package.json : error :          [/Users/runner/work/1/s/[NAME].App/[NAME].App.csproj]
Web/typescript/tsconfig.json : error : The path '../../../../../../../work/1/s/[NAME].App/Web/typescript/tsconfig.json' would result in a file outside of the app bundle and cannot be used. [/Users/runner/work/1/s/[NAME].App/[NAME].App.csproj]
Web/typescript/tsconfig.json : error :          [/Users/runner/work/1/s/[NAME].App/[NAME].App.csproj]

[Ghevi]

I have the same kind of error with libman, i think it happens with any .json file (in my case at least) in the root of the project. It has content as build action, don't know if it's the correct one. For libman.json I'm able to exclude it in the csproj and then do libman restore if needed...

[PureWeen]

@rolfbjarne @mattleibow thoughts?

[rolfbjarne]

It has content as build action, don't know if it's the correct one.

If you don't want the file copied to the app bundle, then use None as the build action.

If you want the file copied to the app bundle, then you'll probably have to set the Link metadata on the item to where in the app bundle you want the file copied (see https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios/blob/main/dotnet/BundleContents.md for more information).

[Nilsson-S24]

Thanks! I will look in to the link meta data. I do think the files are needed but will test and see.

[datvm]

It has content as build action, don't know if it's the correct one.

If you don't want the file copied to the app bundle, then use None as the build action.

If you want the file copied to the app bundle, then you'll probably have to set the Link metadata on the item to where in the app bundle you want the file copied (see https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios/blob/main/dotnet/BundleContents.md for more information).

I have the problem with this (and indeed it happens to all JSON Content files). Problem is, in order for TypeScript build to work, tsconfig.json has to be of Content Build action. Any workaround beside removing Microsoft.TypeScript.MSBuild and running tsc manually?

[rolfbjarne]

@datvm you can also set the PublishFolderType=None metadata on the items to prevent them from being copied to the app bundle:

<Content Include="tsconfig.json" PublishFolderType="None" />

[datvm]

@rolfbjarne thanks it works!