PCL DomCompiler 可移植类库输出

Question

I have below code snippet in one of my projects, which outputs a .dll from a given .cs file.

Now, I would love to output a portable class library instead of a standard library, yet have no idea how to change the output type.

I read the output type is just part of the .csproj, but I don't have a .csproj with this way of compiling to .dll.

    CSharpCodeProvider provider = new CSharpCodeProvider();
    CompilerParameters cp = new CompilerParameters();
    cp.OutputAssembly = "myassemblyname.dll";
    cp.GenerateInMemory = false; 
    cp.IncludeDebugInformation = true; 
    CompilerResults cr = provider.CompileAssemblyFromFile(cp, new String[] { "MySourceFile.cs", codeFile });

    if(cr.Errors.Count > 0) {
        Console.WriteLine("Errors building {0}", cr.PathToAssembly);
        foreach(CompilerError ce in cr.Errors) {
            Console.WriteLine("  {0}", ce.ToString());
            Console.WriteLine();
        }
    }
    else
        Console.WriteLine("Source {0} built into {1} successfully.", codeFile, cr.PathToAssembly);
}

Anyone have an idea howto instruct CSharpCodeProvider to output a Portable Class Library (PCL)

Answer 1

According to this answer, you should just pass the right assembly references to CompilerParameters and set CompilerParameters.GenerateExecutable property to false to generate dll.

To figure out the right references, you can build PCL via IDE and just look to Output window.

Answer 2

In the end, we switched this particular project's build method where it now just follows a .csproj. But our tests with adding the correct CompilerParameters.ReferencedAssemblies seemed to work, so marked as answer.

20:20-hindsight-remark: Generating the code and asking build to compile a project does seem less of a headache now.. pointy clicky interfaces aren't so bad after all.