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Xamarin Studio has been replaced for Visual Studio on MacOS. I have a project that builds a DLL using Xamarin iOS. For DevOps (automated release), I want to build the project for release from the command line. I know previously the mdtool was used for this purpose, as seen in this answer but now in visual studio there is no more mdtools binary anymore.

Felipe Cesar Assis
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msbuild has replaced mdtool (and xbuild), so all the tasks that once were handled by mdtool are now handled by the cross-platform msbuild and its standard set of cmd-line options.

Release configuration:

Clean a single project in a solution

msbuild /p:SolutionDir=./ /target:Clean /p:Configuration=Release  SomeProjectLibrary/SomeProjectLibrary.csproj

Build a single project in a solution

msbuild /p:SolutionDir=./ /target:Build /p:Configuration=Release SomeProjectLibrary/SomeProjectLibrary.csproj

Note: Using Using SolutionDir=./ so these cmds are being run from the root directory of the solution.

SushiHangover
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  • As an additional info, in my quest for automation, I also found the executable `/Applications/Visual\ Studio.app/Contents/MacOS/vstool`, I also managed to build with `vstool -v build --target:project_target --configuration:Release project.sln` – Felipe Cesar Assis May 30 '18 at 20:23
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    @FelipeCesarAssis In terms of CI, using the Visual Studio Tool Runner (`vstool`) requires that the VS4M is installed, which is not a normal thing to install on macOS CI servers, but yes, it is available and basically it is calling msbuild tasks to perform its work. – SushiHangover May 30 '18 at 20:32