Creating and fine-tuning .Net 6 projects

[Rashmatash]

Hi all,

I'm trying to generate a simple C# .Net 6 project. There're a couple of issues. First question is whether Premake5 is capable of generating correct .Net projects. If so, what can I do to generate the following?

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">

  <PropertyGroup>
    <OutputType>WinExe</OutputType>
    <TargetFramework>net6.0-windows</TargetFramework>
    <UseWPF>true</UseWPF>
    <Platforms>x64</Platforms>
    <AppendTargetFrameworkToOutputPath>false</AppendTargetFrameworkToOutputPath>
    <ApplicationIcon>Resources\Icons\Primal.ico</ApplicationIcon>
    <Configurations>DebugEditor;ReleaseEditor</Configurations>
    <XamlDebuggingInformation>True</XamlDebuggingInformation>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)'=='DebugEditor|x64'">
    <OutputPath>..\x64\DebugEditor\</OutputPath>
    <Optimize>false</Optimize>
    <DefineConstants>DEBUG;TRACE</DefineConstants>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)'=='ReleaseEditor|x64'">
    <OutputPath>..\x64\ReleaseEditor\</OutputPath>
	<Optimize>true</Optimize>
  </PropertyGroup>
</Project>

I'm using this lua script to generate the project:

workspace "Primal"
    configurations {  "DebugEditor", "ReleaseEditor" }
    platforms "x64"
    architecture "x64"
    startproject "PrimalEditor"

    filter "configurations:DebugEditor"
        defines { "DEBUG" }
        symbols "On"
    
    filter "configurations:ReleaseEditor"
        defines { "NDEBUG" }
        optimize "Speed"
    filter{}

outputdir = "%{wks.location}/%{cfg.platform}/%{cfg.buildcfg}"
intermediatesdir = "%{cfg.platform}/%{cfg.buildcfg}"

project "PrimalEditor"
    configurations { "DebugEditor", "ReleaseEditor" }	
    location "PrimalEditor"
    kind "WindowedApp"
    language "C#"
    dotnetframework "net6.0" 
    targetdir (outputdir)

using premake5 --dotnet=msnet vs2022. I also tried other dotnet flavors but they all give the same result:

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <OutputType>WinExe</OutputType>
    <AppDesignerFolder>Properties</AppDesignerFolder>
    <TargetFramework>net6.0</TargetFramework>
    <EnableDefaultCompileItems>false</EnableDefaultCompileItems>
  </PropertyGroup>
  
  <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'DebugEditor|x64' ">
    <PlatformTarget>x64</PlatformTarget>
    <DebugType>pdbonly</DebugType>
    <DebugSymbols>true</DebugSymbols>
    <Optimize>false</Optimize>
    <OutputPath>..\x64\DebugEditor\</OutputPath>
    <IntermediateOutputPath>obj\x64\DebugEditor\</IntermediateOutputPath>
    <DefineConstants>DEBUG</DefineConstants>
    <ErrorReport>prompt</ErrorReport>
    <WarningLevel>4</WarningLevel>
  </PropertyGroup>
  
  <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'ReleaseEditor|x64' ">
    <PlatformTarget>x64</PlatformTarget>
    <DebugType>portable</DebugType>
    <DebugSymbols>true</DebugSymbols>
    <Optimize>true</Optimize>
    <OutputPath>..\x64\ReleaseEditor\</OutputPath>
    <IntermediateOutputPath>obj\x64\ReleaseEditor\</IntermediateOutputPath>
    <DefineConstants>NDEBUG</DefineConstants>
    <ErrorReport>prompt</ErrorReport>
    <WarningLevel>4</WarningLevel>
  </PropertyGroup>
</Project>

please note that this line is missing: <Configurations>DebugEditor;ReleaseEditor</Configurations> and therefore the configurations are undefined in the generated project. Also, is there a way to add other properties, like <UseWPF>true</UseWPF> and <AppendTargetFrameworkToOutputPath>false</AppendTargetFrameworkToOutputPath>. Any help with this is greatly appreciated.