MSBuild executable

[asbjornu]

With Homebrew/homebrew-core#92991 implemented, I'm noticing when running JetBrains Rider and the jb CLI that the location of MSBuild is not detected. I've tried to create /usr/local/bin/msbuild with the following contents without luck:

#!/bin/bash
exec "/usr/local/bin/dotnet" "/usr/local/Cellar/dotnet/6.0.100/libexec/sdk/6.0.100/MSBuild.dll" "$@"

Does an environment variable such as MSBuildSDKsPath mentioned here need to be created, or something else saying to Rider and other tools where MSBuild is?

[omajid]

I am not familiar with Rider, but does it log/display any errors that might provide hints?

Would it be possible to use dtruss/strace or maybe even an echo "$@" >> $HOME/save-rider-caller-args.log in your script to figure out how Rider tries to invoke msbuild?

Maybe try exec dotnet msbuild "$@"?

[asbjornu]

I've managed to manually configure MSBuild's placement in Rider, but since the jb CLI is also not auto-discovering MSBuild's placement, I thought perhaps there was a standard environment variable these tools were looking for which the .NET installer is setting and the Homebrew formula isn't.