In some cases dotnet build fails when there is a direct DLL reference while building via VS is okay #6730
Description
We are trying to convert an old project to .NET standard. First step was to convert .csproj file to an SDK style. There is a directly referenced legacy DLL with a target runtime v2.0.50727. Project itself has net40 target framework.
When I try to compile a project after conversion with a Visual Studio everything goes well. But when I use dotnet build command it fails with the following error:
C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\5.0.203\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2182,5): error MSB4018: The "ResolveAssemblyReference" task failed unexpectedly. [C:\Git\surpass.common.documentreport\DocumentReport\DocumentReport.csproj]
C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\5.0.203\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2182,5): error MSB4018: System.InvalidCastException: Specified cast is not valid. [C:\Git\surpass.common.documentreport\DocumentReport\DocumentReport.csproj]
C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\5.0.203\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2182,5): error MSB4018: at System.Reflection.Throw.InvalidCast() [C:\Git\surpass.common.documentreport\DocumentReport\DocumentReport.csproj]
C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\5.0.203\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2182,5): error MSB4018: at System.Reflection.Metadata.TypeReferenceHandle.op_Explicit(EntityHandle handle) [C:\Git\surpass.common.documentreport\DocumentReport\DocumentReport.csproj]
C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\5.0.203\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2182,5): error MSB4018: at Microsoft.Build.Tasks.AssemblyInformation.CorePopulateMetadata() [C:\Git\surpass.common.documentreport\DocumentReport\DocumentReport.csproj]
C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\5.0.203\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2182,5): error MSB4018: at Microsoft.Build.Tasks.AssemblyInformation.get_Dependencies() [C:\Git\surpass.common.documentreport\DocumentReport\DocumentReport.csproj]
C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\5.0.203\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2182,5): error MSB4018: at Microsoft.Build.Tasks.AssemblyDependency.AssemblyMetadata..ctor(String path) [C:\Git\surpass.common.documentreport\DocumentReport\DocumentReport.csproj]
C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\5.0.203\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2182,5): error MSB4018: at Microsoft.Build.Tasks.AssemblyInformation.<>c.<GetAssemblyMetadata>b__12_0(String p) [C:\Git\surpass.common.documentreport\DocumentReport\DocumentReport.csproj]
C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\5.0.203\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2182,5): error MSB4018: at System.Collections.Concurrent.ConcurrentDictionary`2.GetOrAdd(TKey key, Func`2 valueFactory) [C:\Git\surpass.common.documentreport\DocumentReport\DocumentReport.csproj]
C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\5.0.203\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2182,5): error MSB4018: at Microsoft.Build.Tasks.AssemblyInformation.GetAssemblyMetadata(String path, ConcurrentDictionary`2 assemblyMetadataCache, AssemblyNameExtension[]& dependencies, String[]& scatterFiles, FrameworkName& frameworkName) [C:\Git\surpass.common.documentreport\DocumentReport\DocumentReport.csproj]
C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\5.0.203\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2182,5): error MSB4018: at Microsoft.Build.Tasks.SystemState.GetAssemblyMetadata(String path, ConcurrentDictionary`2 assemblyMetadataCache, AssemblyNameExtension[]& dependencies, String[]& scatterFiles, FrameworkName& frameworkName) [C:\Git\surpass.common.documentreport\DocumentReport\DocumentReport.csproj]
C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\5.0.203\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2182,5): error MSB4018: at Microsoft.Build.Tasks.ReferenceTable.GetUnifiedAssemblyMetadata(Reference reference, IEnumerable`1& unifiedDependencies, String[]& scatterFiles) [C:\Git\surpass.common.documentreport\DocumentReport\DocumentReport.csproj]
C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\5.0.203\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2182,5): error MSB4018: at Microsoft.Build.Tasks.ReferenceTable.FindDependenciesAndScatterFiles(Reference reference, List`1 newEntries) [C:\Git\surpass.common.documentreport\DocumentReport\DocumentReport.csproj]
C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\5.0.203\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2182,5): error MSB4018: at Microsoft.Build.Tasks.ReferenceTable.FindAssociatedFiles() [C:\Git\surpass.common.documentreport\DocumentReport\DocumentReport.csproj]
C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\5.0.203\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2182,5): error MSB4018: at Microsoft.Build.Tasks.ReferenceTable.ComputeClosure() [C:\Git\surpass.common.documentreport\DocumentReport\DocumentReport.csproj]
C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\5.0.203\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2182,5): error MSB4018: at Microsoft.Build.Tasks.ReferenceTable.ComputeClosure(IEnumerable`1 remappedAssembliesValue, ITaskItem[] referenceAssemblyFiles, ITaskItem[] referenceAssemblyNames, List`1 exceptions) [C:\Git\surpass.common.documentreport\DocumentReport\DocumentReport.csproj]
C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\5.0.203\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2182,5): error MSB4018: at Microsoft.Build.Tasks.ResolveAssemblyReference.Execute(FileExists fileExists, DirectoryExists directoryExists, GetDirectories getDirectories, GetAssemblyName getAssemblyName, GetAssemblyMetadata getAssemblyMetadata, GetLastWriteTime getLastWriteTime, GetAssemblyRuntimeVersion getRuntimeVersion, GetAssemblyPathInGac getAssemblyPathInGac, IsWinMDFile isWinMDFile, ReadMachineTypeFromPEHeader readMachineTypeFromPEHeader) [C:\Git\surpass.common.documentreport\DocumentReport\DocumentReport.csproj]
C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\5.0.203\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2182,5): error MSB4018: at Microsoft.Build.Tasks.ResolveAssemblyReference.Execute() [C:\Git\surpass.common.documentreport\DocumentReport\DocumentReport.csproj]
C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\5.0.203\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2182,5): error MSB4018: at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskExecutionHost.Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.ITaskExecutionHost.Execute() [C:\Git\surpass.common.documentreport\DocumentReport\DocumentReport.csproj]
C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\5.0.203\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2182,5): error MSB4018: at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskBuilder.ExecuteInstantiatedTask(ITaskExecutionHost taskExecutionHost, TaskLoggingContext taskLoggingContext, TaskHost taskHost, ItemBucket bucket, TaskExecutionMode howToExecuteTask) [C:\Git\surpass.common.documentreport\DocumentReport\DocumentReport.csproj]
I've tried to compare detailed build logs for this step from VS and from CLI and there is only 1 difference:
In VS there is a following text:
TargetedRuntimeVersion:
v4.0.30319
But when I execute dotnet build I get
TargetedRuntimeVersion:
v
When I remove a reference for this third-party DLL and comment out all the code that uses it project builds well even via CLI.