Allow custom compilers to inject sources into symbol packages

[muratg]

From @Alxandr on May 30, 2015 17:58

With how my new F# compiler for DNX work, I end up with empty symbol packages. Now, symbolsource doesn't support DNX targets yet so it's not that much of a problem ^^, but I would still like for a way for my compiler to DNU what sources/additional sources to include in the symbols package.

Copied from original issue: aspnet/dnx#1995

[TheRealPiotrP]

@enricosada is this still an issue?

[enricosada]

no @piotrpMSFT this issue can be closed, portablepdb or pdb on windows are supported.
these need to be configured in project.json (like c#)

[Alxandr]

I'm not saying this isn't resolved, but @enricosada when I mad this issue, it had nothing to do with portable PDBs.

[enricosada]

sry @Alxandr i confused empty symbol package with empty debug symbols assembly (thinking about the empty pdb generated atm by dotnet build with f#)

so about symbol package:

using netcore sdk preview1:

dotnet new --lang f#
dotnet restore
dotnet pack

output of dotnet pack:

Producing nuget package "testsy.1.0.0" for testsy
testsy -> E:\temp\testsy\bin\Debug\testsy.1.0.0.nupkg
Producing nuget package "testsy.1.0.0.symbols" for testsy
testsy -> E:\temp\testsy\bin\Debug\testsy.1.0.0.symbols.nupkg

and testsy.1.0.0.symbols.nupkg contains Program.fs (the source file).

|   testsy.nuspec
|   [Content_Types].xml
|
+---lib
|   \---netstandard1.5
|           testsy.dll
|           testsy.pdb
|           testsy.runtimeconfig.json
|
+---src
|       Program.fs
|
\---_rels
        .rels

That was the issue before @Alxandr ?

[Alxandr]

Yes. I believe this was fixed by convention when the F# compiler started using the same fields for what files to compile as the C# compiler did. Still think it should be allowed for the compiler to inject into what goes into the symbols package, but yeah, this works.

[TheRealPiotrP]

The team is actively working on enabling MSBuild and the component affected will be superseded by the new project system, so I am closing this issue.