Has anyone seen this error before when builing a PowerShell executable in VS 2019? I’m not seeing it in VS 2017 which builds the executable fine. The error message in the PowerShell project is fairly generic:
PowerShellProTools.targets(5,5): error : Failed to build
The build output references a temporary C# project generated to build the executable, so opening that up and building it from there provides a much better error message:
ConsolePowerShellHost.cs(54,17): warning CS0162: Unreachable code detected [C:\Users\adam\AppData\Local\Temp\f584f316a97541eaa87524930b30eeb4\EMDBT.csproj]
CSC : error CS8103: Combined length of user strings used by the program exceeds allowed limit. Try to decrease use of string literals. [C:\Users\adam\AppData\Local\Temp\f584f316a97541eaa87524930b30eeb4\EMDBT.csproj]
1 Warning(s)
1 Error(s)
Inside the C# project it looks like all the PowerShell code is appended to the stringBuilder. My project is generating 3406 lines here as I’m dot sourcing various scripts into the project - if I remove the dot sourced files I can complie so it does look like a limitation on the amount of PowerShell code you can add (which correlates with the error message I’m getting).
As I’m not seeing this behaviour in VS 2017 I presume it’s specific to VS 2019 - has anyone else seen this problem before and know how to resolve or know what the allowed limit is that the error refers to?
Many thanks!
Adam