PacketTypes not built using regular instructions

[Misterblue]

Using Ubuntu with dotnet9 installed, if one clones the repository and follows the usual build instructions ("dotnet restore ...", "dotnet msbuild ..."), there are errors that "PacketType" and "LayerDataPacket" are not defined.

I presume that there is a build step somewhere to build the packet definitions.

Also, the instructions in the README say "dotnet msbuild LibreMetaverse.Release.sln" when that file doesn't exist.

[cinderblocks]

dotnet restore LibreMetaverse.sln
dotnet build "/home/appveyor/projects/libremetaverse-ksbcr/LibreMetaverse.sln" --configuration Release --verbosity minimal /m /p:GeneratePackageOnBuild=false

is what is being used to build on Ubuntu CI.

Microsoft never updated MSBuild past .NET5.0 so custom tasks are not supported there, and we now generate packets via roslyn compiler during the build to keep things sane.

If you want to use MSBuild, you will need to run the Roslyn code generators as an extra step. They are located under /SourceGenerators/

[Misterblue]

I did those commands and got the same errors. This is with Ubuntu dotnet (version=9.0.112, msbuild ver=17.12.50+191254d64). I don't see where the prebuild steps for the SourceGenerators are specified. I checked out the updated README (you beat me to the PR :-) ) but still the same errors.
It might be some odd configuration stuff since the build output has odd warnings (about compiler versions being different, and roslyn analysis stuff not enabled).
Attached is a build output.
libreM-build-20251212a.txt

[cinderblocks]

This is what we are using in CI that builds successfully:

dotnet --info
.NET SDK:
 Version:           9.0.203
 Commit:            dc7acfa194
 Workload version:  9.0.200-manifests.9df47798
 MSBuild version:   17.13.20+a4ef1e90f
Runtime Environment:
 OS Name:     ubuntu
 OS Version:  22.04
 OS Platform: Linux
 RID:         linux-x64
 Base Path:   /usr/share/dotnet/sdk/9.0.203/
.NET workloads installed:
There are no installed workloads to display.
Configured to use loose manifests when installing new manifests.
Host:
  Version:      9.0.4
  Architecture: x64
  Commit:       f57e6dc747
.NET SDKs installed:
  6.0.428 [/usr/share/dotnet/sdk]
  7.0.410 [/usr/share/dotnet/sdk]
  8.0.413 [/usr/share/dotnet/sdk]
  9.0.203 [/usr/share/dotnet/sdk]
.NET runtimes installed:
  Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.36 [/usr/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
  Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 7.0.20 [/usr/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
  Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 8.0.19 [/usr/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
  Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 9.0.4 [/usr/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.36 [/usr/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 7.0.20 [/usr/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 8.0.19 [/usr/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 9.0.4 [/usr/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Other architectures found:
  None
Environment variables:
  Not set
global.json file:
  Not found

Slightly newer, might make a difference as far as the Roslyn source generator.

[Misterblue]

Found the problem... SourceGenerators/PacketSourceGenerator/PacketSourceGenerator.csproj specifies Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp version 4.13.0 but my system has version 4.12.0. There is an error in the log about the versions. That version mismatch keeps the generators from running.
That version info doesn't show up in the "dotnet --info" and not sure wny the "dotnet restore" didn't pull the new version but I have it compiling after editing the version info in PacketSourceGenerator.csproj and VisualParamGenerator.csproj.