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.NET 8 will load the ILLink component based on the target framework of the
project file - so if .NET 8 is building a net7.0-ios app, the build will
restore and use the ILLink component from .NET 7.

There is a problem however:

  • The inclusion of the ILLink component is dpendent on the PublishTrimmed
    property - if PublishTrimmed is true, then the ILLink component is restored
    (which makes sense, why restore it if it's not going to be used?).
  • We always PublishTrimmed, because the linker must always be executed for our
    projects. So far so good - we can just always enable PublishTrimmed, right?
  • Nope, when building on Windows, we only enable PublishTrimmed when connected
    to a Mac, because that's where the ILLink target must be executed (and if
    we're not connected to a Mac, we can't run the ILLink target, and things
    fall apart - so just disable PublishTrimmed in that, since it won't work
    anyway).
  • Early on in the build we have no idea if we're connected to a Mac or not,
    which means we can only enable PublishTrimmed in a target, and not as an
    early-on default value. This is way to late for the ILLink component,
    which needs PublishTrimmed set quite early in the build process.
  • Fortunately, the ILLink inclusion is actually gated on a different variable
    (_IsTrimmingEnabled) - which is initialized from PublishTrimmed if it's not
    set. So the way out here is to set _IsTrimmingEnabled early enough, and now
    the ILLink component is included and restored.
  • The additional hurdle is that we need to set _IsTrimmingEnabled in our .NET
    6 and .NET 7 workloads as well, it's not enough to set it in our .NET 8
    workload (which isn't even loaded when building an earlier TFM).

.NET 8 will load the ILLink component based on the target framework of the
project file - so if .NET 8 is building a net7.0-ios app, the build will
restore and use the ILLink component from .NET 7.

There is a problem however:

* The inclusion of the ILLink component is dpendent on the PublishTrimmed
  property - if PublishTrimmed is true, then the ILLink component is restored
  (which makes sense, why restore it if it's not going to be used?).
* We always PublishTrimmed, because the linker must always be executed for our
  projects. So far so good - we can just always enable PublishTrimmed, right?
* Nope, when building on Windows, we only enable PublishTrimmed when connected
  to a Mac, because that's where the ILLink target must be executed (and if
  we're not connected to a Mac, we can't run the ILLink target, and things
  fall apart - so just disable PublishTrimmed in that, since it won't work
  anyway).
* Early on in the build we have no idea if we're connected to a Mac or not,
  which means we can only enable PublishTrimmed in a target, and not as an
  early-on default value. This is *way* to late for the ILLink component,
  which needs PublishTrimmed set quite early in the build process.
* Fortunately, the ILLink inclusion is actually gated on a different variable
  (_IsTrimmingEnabled) - which is initialized from PublishTrimmed if it's not
  set. So the way out here is to set _IsTrimmingEnabled early enough, and now
  the ILLink component is included and restored.
* The additional hurdle is that we need to set _IsTrimmingEnabled in our .NET
  6 and .NET 7 workloads as well, it's not enough to set it in our .NET 8
  workload (which isn't even loaded when building an earlier TFM).
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CC @jonathanpeppers you might need this for Android as well.

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CC @jonathanpeppers you might need this for Android as well.

I'll keep an eye on this, this sounds like we would restore this ILLink package for Release and not Debug. Android does not use the trimmer for Debug builds. I'm not sure if this will cause an issue or not, we do set PublishTrimmed=true automatically for Release builds.

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Test failure is unrelated (https://github.com/xamarin/maccore/issues/2450).

@rolfbjarne rolfbjarne merged commit 7d02fa6 into dotnet:main Jan 16, 2023
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rolfbjarne added a commit that referenced this pull request Jan 17, 2023
… properly. (#17255)

.NET 8 will load the ILLink component based on the target framework of the
project file - so if .NET 8 is building a net7.0-ios app, the build will
restore and use the ILLink component from .NET 7.

There is a problem however:

* The inclusion of the ILLink component is dpendent on the PublishTrimmed
  property - if PublishTrimmed is true, then the ILLink component is restored
  (which makes sense, why restore it if it's not going to be used?).
* We always PublishTrimmed, because the linker must always be executed for our
  projects. So far so good - we can just always enable PublishTrimmed, right?
* Nope, when building on Windows, we only enable PublishTrimmed when connected
  to a Mac, because that's where the ILLink target must be executed (and if
  we're not connected to a Mac, we can't run the ILLink target, and things
  fall apart - so just disable PublishTrimmed in that, since it won't work
  anyway).
* Early on in the build we have no idea if we're connected to a Mac or not,
  which means we can only enable PublishTrimmed in a target, and not as an
  early-on default value. This is *way* to late for the ILLink component,
  which needs PublishTrimmed set quite early in the build process.
* Fortunately, the ILLink inclusion is actually gated on a different variable
  (_IsTrimmingEnabled) - which is initialized from PublishTrimmed if it's not
  set. So the way out here is to set _IsTrimmingEnabled early enough, and now
  the ILLink component is included and restored.
* The additional hurdle is that we need to set _IsTrimmingEnabled in our .NET
  6 and .NET 7 workloads as well, it's not enough to set it in our .NET 8
  workload (which isn't even loaded when building an earlier TFM).


Backport of #17227

Co-authored-by: Rolf Bjarne Kvinge <rolf@xamarin.com>
rolfbjarne added a commit that referenced this pull request Jan 17, 2023
…e restored properly. (#17254)

.NET 8 will load the ILLink component based on the target framework of the
project file - so if .NET 8 is building a net7.0-ios app, the build will
restore and use the ILLink component from .NET 7.

There is a problem however:

* The inclusion of the ILLink component is dpendent on the PublishTrimmed
  property - if PublishTrimmed is true, then the ILLink component is restored
  (which makes sense, why restore it if it's not going to be used?).
* We always PublishTrimmed, because the linker must always be executed for our
  projects. So far so good - we can just always enable PublishTrimmed, right?
* Nope, when building on Windows, we only enable PublishTrimmed when connected
  to a Mac, because that's where the ILLink target must be executed (and if
  we're not connected to a Mac, we can't run the ILLink target, and things
  fall apart - so just disable PublishTrimmed in that, since it won't work
  anyway).
* Early on in the build we have no idea if we're connected to a Mac or not,
  which means we can only enable PublishTrimmed in a target, and not as an
  early-on default value. This is *way* to late for the ILLink component,
  which needs PublishTrimmed set quite early in the build process.
* Fortunately, the ILLink inclusion is actually gated on a different variable
  (_IsTrimmingEnabled) - which is initialized from PublishTrimmed if it's not
  set. So the way out here is to set _IsTrimmingEnabled early enough, and now
  the ILLink component is included and restored.
* The additional hurdle is that we need to set _IsTrimmingEnabled in our .NET
  6 and .NET 7 workloads as well, it's not enough to set it in our .NET 8
  workload (which isn't even loaded when building an earlier TFM).


Backport of #17227

Co-authored-by: Rolf Bjarne Kvinge <rolf@xamarin.com>
rolfbjarne added a commit that referenced this pull request Jan 17, 2023
…e restored properly. (#17253)

.NET 8 will load the ILLink component based on the target framework of the
project file - so if .NET 8 is building a net7.0-ios app, the build will
restore and use the ILLink component from .NET 7.

There is a problem however:

* The inclusion of the ILLink component is dpendent on the PublishTrimmed
  property - if PublishTrimmed is true, then the ILLink component is restored
  (which makes sense, why restore it if it's not going to be used?).
* We always PublishTrimmed, because the linker must always be executed for our
  projects. So far so good - we can just always enable PublishTrimmed, right?
* Nope, when building on Windows, we only enable PublishTrimmed when connected
  to a Mac, because that's where the ILLink target must be executed (and if
  we're not connected to a Mac, we can't run the ILLink target, and things
  fall apart - so just disable PublishTrimmed in that, since it won't work
  anyway).
* Early on in the build we have no idea if we're connected to a Mac or not,
  which means we can only enable PublishTrimmed in a target, and not as an
  early-on default value. This is *way* to late for the ILLink component,
  which needs PublishTrimmed set quite early in the build process.
* Fortunately, the ILLink inclusion is actually gated on a different variable
  (_IsTrimmingEnabled) - which is initialized from PublishTrimmed if it's not
  set. So the way out here is to set _IsTrimmingEnabled early enough, and now
  the ILLink component is included and restored.
* The additional hurdle is that we need to set _IsTrimmingEnabled in our .NET
  6 and .NET 7 workloads as well, it's not enough to set it in our .NET 8
  workload (which isn't even loaded when building an earlier TFM).


Backport of #17227

Co-authored-by: Rolf Bjarne Kvinge <rolf@xamarin.com>
rolfbjarne added a commit that referenced this pull request Jan 17, 2023
… properly. (#17250)

.NET 8 will load the ILLink component based on the target framework of the
project file - so if .NET 8 is building a net7.0-ios app, the build will
restore and use the ILLink component from .NET 7.

There is a problem however:

* The inclusion of the ILLink component is dpendent on the PublishTrimmed
  property - if PublishTrimmed is true, then the ILLink component is restored
  (which makes sense, why restore it if it's not going to be used?).
* We always PublishTrimmed, because the linker must always be executed for our
  projects. So far so good - we can just always enable PublishTrimmed, right?
* Nope, when building on Windows, we only enable PublishTrimmed when connected
  to a Mac, because that's where the ILLink target must be executed (and if
  we're not connected to a Mac, we can't run the ILLink target, and things
  fall apart - so just disable PublishTrimmed in that, since it won't work
  anyway).
* Early on in the build we have no idea if we're connected to a Mac or not,
  which means we can only enable PublishTrimmed in a target, and not as an
  early-on default value. This is *way* to late for the ILLink component,
  which needs PublishTrimmed set quite early in the build process.
* Fortunately, the ILLink inclusion is actually gated on a different variable
  (_IsTrimmingEnabled) - which is initialized from PublishTrimmed if it's not
  set. So the way out here is to set _IsTrimmingEnabled early enough, and now
  the ILLink component is included and restored.
* The additional hurdle is that we need to set _IsTrimmingEnabled in our .NET
  6 and .NET 7 workloads as well, it's not enough to set it in our .NET 8
  workload (which isn't even loaded when building an earlier TFM).


Backport of #17227

Co-authored-by: Rolf Bjarne Kvinge <rolf@xamarin.com>
rolfbjarne added a commit that referenced this pull request Jan 17, 2023
… properly. (#17251)

.NET 8 will load the ILLink component based on the target framework of the
project file - so if .NET 8 is building a net7.0-ios app, the build will
restore and use the ILLink component from .NET 7.

There is a problem however:

* The inclusion of the ILLink component is dpendent on the PublishTrimmed
  property - if PublishTrimmed is true, then the ILLink component is restored
  (which makes sense, why restore it if it's not going to be used?).
* We always PublishTrimmed, because the linker must always be executed for our
  projects. So far so good - we can just always enable PublishTrimmed, right?
* Nope, when building on Windows, we only enable PublishTrimmed when connected
  to a Mac, because that's where the ILLink target must be executed (and if
  we're not connected to a Mac, we can't run the ILLink target, and things
  fall apart - so just disable PublishTrimmed in that, since it won't work
  anyway).
* Early on in the build we have no idea if we're connected to a Mac or not,
  which means we can only enable PublishTrimmed in a target, and not as an
  early-on default value. This is *way* to late for the ILLink component,
  which needs PublishTrimmed set quite early in the build process.
* Fortunately, the ILLink inclusion is actually gated on a different variable
  (_IsTrimmingEnabled) - which is initialized from PublishTrimmed if it's not
  set. So the way out here is to set _IsTrimmingEnabled early enough, and now
  the ILLink component is included and restored.
* The additional hurdle is that we need to set _IsTrimmingEnabled in our .NET
  6 and .NET 7 workloads as well, it's not enough to set it in our .NET 8
  workload (which isn't even loaded when building an earlier TFM).


Backport of #17227

Co-authored-by: Rolf Bjarne Kvinge <rolf@xamarin.com>
rolfbjarne added a commit that referenced this pull request Jan 17, 2023
…e restored properly. (#17252)

.NET 8 will load the ILLink component based on the target framework of the
project file - so if .NET 8 is building a net7.0-ios app, the build will
restore and use the ILLink component from .NET 7.

There is a problem however:

* The inclusion of the ILLink component is dpendent on the PublishTrimmed
  property - if PublishTrimmed is true, then the ILLink component is restored
  (which makes sense, why restore it if it's not going to be used?).
* We always PublishTrimmed, because the linker must always be executed for our
  projects. So far so good - we can just always enable PublishTrimmed, right?
* Nope, when building on Windows, we only enable PublishTrimmed when connected
  to a Mac, because that's where the ILLink target must be executed (and if
  we're not connected to a Mac, we can't run the ILLink target, and things
  fall apart - so just disable PublishTrimmed in that, since it won't work
  anyway).
* Early on in the build we have no idea if we're connected to a Mac or not,
  which means we can only enable PublishTrimmed in a target, and not as an
  early-on default value. This is *way* to late for the ILLink component,
  which needs PublishTrimmed set quite early in the build process.
* Fortunately, the ILLink inclusion is actually gated on a different variable
  (_IsTrimmingEnabled) - which is initialized from PublishTrimmed if it's not
  set. So the way out here is to set _IsTrimmingEnabled early enough, and now
  the ILLink component is included and restored.
* The additional hurdle is that we need to set _IsTrimmingEnabled in our .NET
  6 and .NET 7 workloads as well, it's not enough to set it in our .NET 8
  workload (which isn't even loaded when building an earlier TFM).


Backport of #17227

Co-authored-by: Rolf Bjarne Kvinge <rolf@xamarin.com>
dustin-wojciechowski pushed a commit to dustin-wojciechowski/xamarin-macios that referenced this pull request Jan 19, 2023
…#17227)

.NET 8 will load the ILLink component based on the target framework of the
project file - so if .NET 8 is building a net7.0-ios app, the build will
restore and use the ILLink component from .NET 7.

There is a problem however:

* The inclusion of the ILLink component is dpendent on the PublishTrimmed
  property - if PublishTrimmed is true, then the ILLink component is restored
  (which makes sense, why restore it if it's not going to be used?).
* We always PublishTrimmed, because the linker must always be executed for our
  projects. So far so good - we can just always enable PublishTrimmed, right?
* Nope, when building on Windows, we only enable PublishTrimmed when connected
  to a Mac, because that's where the ILLink target must be executed (and if
  we're not connected to a Mac, we can't run the ILLink target, and things
  fall apart - so just disable PublishTrimmed in that, since it won't work
  anyway).
* Early on in the build we have no idea if we're connected to a Mac or not,
  which means we can only enable PublishTrimmed in a target, and not as an
  early-on default value. This is *way* to late for the ILLink component,
  which needs PublishTrimmed set quite early in the build process.
* Fortunately, the ILLink inclusion is actually gated on a different variable
  (_IsTrimmingEnabled) - which is initialized from PublishTrimmed if it's not
  set. So the way out here is to set _IsTrimmingEnabled early enough, and now
  the ILLink component is included and restored.
* The additional hurdle is that we need to set _IsTrimmingEnabled in our .NET
  6 and .NET 7 workloads as well, it's not enough to set it in our .NET 8
  workload (which isn't even loaded when building an earlier TFM).
sbomer added a commit to dotnet/sdk that referenced this pull request Aug 4, 2023
bdce224 removed the ability to
download the ILLink pack by setting `_RequiresILLinkPack`. This
is needed for macios scenarios where the ILLink pack should be
restored, but it's not known ahead-of-time whether trimming will
be enabled. See
dotnet/macios#17227 for more
context.

This adds back the ability to set `_RequiresILLinkPack` to
download the ILLink pack even if none of the other relevant
settings are enabled.
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