自动生成带有符号的 nuget package

Question

I have a C# project (.net 6.0) from which I want to automatically create a nuget whenever I (re-)build it.

Here it says:

To automatically run dotnet pack when you run dotnet build , add the following line to your project file within <PropertyGroup> :

 <GeneratePackageOnBuild>true</GeneratePackageOnBuild>

I tried it and it works, but, no symbols ( .pdb files) are added. How can I do this?

• The command dotnet pack --include-symbols can be used for that, but how do I tell the .csproj file to use that command instead of dotnet pack ?

• dotnet pack --include-symbols will generate two nuget packages, one ending with .nupkg and one with .symbols.nupkg . The former does not contain the .pdb , the latter does. I want just one file generated (the .nupkg one without .symbols prefix) which contains both .dll and .pdb .

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I tried the following:

• remove GeneratePackageOnBuild property
• add target to project: <Target Name="BuildNuget" AfterTargets="AfterBuild"><Exec Command="dotnet pack --include-symbols"/></Target>

But now when I run dotnet build , I run into an infinite loop: (Unfortunately it's German, but you can see it just repeats.)

 Wiederherzustellende Projekte werden ermittelt... Alle Projekte sind für die Wiederherstellung auf dem neuesten Stand. MyProject-> C:\Users\...\MyProject\bin\Debug\net6.0-windows\MyProject.dll Microsoft (R)-Build-Engine, Version 17.0.0+c9eb9dd64 für .NET Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. Alle Rechte vorbehalten. Wiederherzustellende Projekte werden ermittelt... Alle Projekte sind für die Wiederherstellung auf dem neuesten Stand. MyProject-> C:\Users\...\MyProject\bin\Debug\net6.0-windows\MyProject.dll Microsoft (R)-Build-Engine, Version 17.0.0+c9eb9dd64 für .NET Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. Alle Rechte vorbehalten. Wiederherzustellende Projekte werden ermittelt... Alle Projekte sind für die Wiederherstellung auf dem neuesten Stand. MyProject-> C:\Users\...\MyProject\bin\Debug\net6.0-windows\MyProject.dll Microsoft (R)-Build-Engine, Version 17.0.0+c9eb9dd64 für .NET Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. Alle Rechte vorbehalten. Wiederherzustellende Projekte werden ermittelt...

Answer 1

Here it says:

The dotnet pack command builds the project and creates NuGet packages.

So if I have dotnet pack as a command after build, I will just get into an infinite build stack. On the same page the options for nuget pack are listed. One of them is --no-build .

Changing the target to

<Target Name="BuildNuget" AfterTargets="AfterBuild">
    <Exec Command="dotnet pack --no-build --include-symbols"/>
</Target>

solves the issue.