Metal compiler build failures are not displayed by dotnet build at minimal verbosity

[jeremy-visionaid]

Apple platform

iOS, Mac Catalyst

Framework version

net8.0-, net9.0-

Affected platform version

8.0.403, 9.0.100-rc.2.24474.11

Description

dotnet build does not show the reason compiling a Metal file failed, it only reports that metal exited with an error code:

dotnet build
  Determining projects to restore...
  Restored /Users/jeremy/src/tests/MacCatalystApp1/MacCatalystApp1/MacCatalystApp1.csproj (in 109 ms).
  Detected signing identity:
          
    Code Signing Key: "" (-)
    Bundle Id: com.companyname.MacCatalystApp1
    App Id: com.companyname.MacCatalystApp1
  MacCatalystApp1 -> /Users/jeremy/src/tests/MacCatalystApp1/MacCatalystApp1/bin/Debug/net8.0-maccatalyst/maccatalyst-arm64/MacCatalystApp1.dll
/usr/local/share/dotnet/packs/Microsoft.MacCatalyst.Sdk.net8.0_18.0/18.0.8303/tools/msbuild/iOS/Xamarin.Shared.targets(1405,3): error MSB6006: "metal" exited with code 1. [/Users/jeremy/src/tests/MacCatalystApp1/MacCatalystApp1/MacCatalystApp1.csproj]

Build FAILED.

/usr/local/share/dotnet/packs/Microsoft.MacCatalyst.Sdk.net8.0_18.0/18.0.8303/tools/msbuild/iOS/Xamarin.Shared.targets(1405,3): error MSB6006: "metal" exited with code 1. [/Users/jeremy/src/tests/MacCatalystApp1/MacCatalystApp1/MacCatalystApp1.csproj]
    0 Warning(s)
    1 Error(s)

Time Elapsed 00:00:02.49

But the error is not useful without including the output from the metal compiler:

         test.metal:5:6: warning: missing terminating ' character [-Winvalid-pp-token]
         Qapla'
              ^
         test.metal:5:1: error: unknown type name 'Qapla'
         Qapla'
         ^
         test.metal:5:6: error: expected unqualified-id
         Qapla'
              ^
         1 warning and 2 errors generated.

Steps to Reproduce

git clone https://github.com/jeremy-visionaid/MacCatalystApp1

git clone https://github.com/jeremy-visionaid/MacCatalystApp1
cd MacCatalystApp1
dotnet build

Did you find any workaround?

dotnet build -v:normal

Build logs

No response

[jeremy-visionaid]

Ideally, I'd expect that the build error should be shown in the "PROBLEMS" tab of VS Code

[Search2Code]

Try to run this in the terminal, it's possible a environment issue.

[tolszak]

I would love to see it fixed too!

[molesmoke]

@Search2Code the attached output is from the terminal, the results are the same in VS Code too. AFAIK everyone on my team is affected by the same issue.

[rolfbjarne]

Thanks for the report - fix is in progress.