Unable to run Styker in WSL

[haakobja]

Hi,
I've got an dotnet sdk project which targets dotnet48 (.NET framework), however when I try to use Stryker it won't build as it expects MSBuild to be present. This might work on Windows, but I'm currently using WSL (Ubuntu) as my development environment and I'm not aware of an Linux native version of MSBuild except xbuild, but it doesn't work either.

> dotnet stryker

   _____ _              _               _   _ ______ _______  
  / ____| |            | |             | \ | |  ____|__   __| 
 | (___ | |_ _ __ _   _| | _____ _ __  |  \| | |__     | |    
  \___ \| __| '__| | | | |/ / _ \ '__| | . ` |  __|    | |    
  ____) | |_| |  | |_| |   <  __/ |    | |\  | |____   | |    
 |_____/ \__|_|   \__, |_|\_\___|_| (_)|_| \_|______|  |_|    
                   __/ |                                      
                  |___/                                       


Version: 3.10.0

[16:09:22 INF] Analysis starting.
[16:09:22 INF] Identifying projects to mutate in /home/hjahre/Projects/stryker/stryker-poc.sln. This can take a while.
[16:09:23 INF] Found 1 source projects
[16:09:23 INF] Found 1 test projects
[16:09:24 INF] Found project /home/hjahre/Projects/stryker/stryker-test/stryker-test.csproj to mutate.
[16:09:24 INF] Analysis complete.
[16:09:24 INF] Building solution stryker-poc.sln
[16:09:25 INF] Unable to find msbuild using vswhere, using fallback locations
[16:09:25 INF] Time Elapsed 00:00:02.5269191
Unhandled exception. System.IO.FileNotFoundException: MsBuild.exe could not be located. If you have MsBuild.exe available but still see this error please create an issue.
   at Stryker.Core.ToolHelpers.MsBuildHelper.GetMsBuildPath(IProcessExecutor processExecutor)
   at Stryker.Core.Initialisation.InitialBuildProcess.InitialBuild(Boolean fullFramework, String projectPath, String solutionPath, String msbuildPath)
   at Stryker.Core.Initialisation.InitialisationProcess.BuildProjects(StrykerOptions options, IEnumerable`1 projects)
   at Stryker.Core.Initialisation.ProjectOrchestrator.MutateProjects(StrykerOptions options, IReporter reporters, ITestRunner runner)+MoveNext()
   at System.Collections.Generic.List`1..ctor(IEnumerable`1 collection)
   at System.Linq.Enumerable.ToList[TSource](IEnumerable`1 source)
   at Stryker.Core.StrykerRunner.RunMutationTest(IStrykerInputs inputs, ILoggerFactory loggerFactory, IProjectOrchestrator projectOrchestrator)
   at Stryker.CLI.StrykerCli.RunStryker(IStrykerInputs inputs) in /_/src/Stryker.CLI/Stryker.CLI/StrykerCLI.cs:line 93
   at Stryker.CLI.StrykerCli.<>c__DisplayClass10_0.<Run>b__0() in /_/src/Stryker.CLI/Stryker.CLI/StrykerCLI.cs:line 68
   at McMaster.Extensions.CommandLineUtils.CommandLineApplication.<>c__DisplayClass143_0.<OnExecute>b__0(CancellationToken _)
   at McMaster.Extensions.CommandLineUtils.CommandLineApplication.ExecuteAsync(String[] args, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at McMaster.Extensions.CommandLineUtils.CommandLineApplication.Execute(String[] args)
   at Stryker.CLI.StrykerCli.Run(String[] args) in /_/src/Stryker.CLI/Stryker.CLI/StrykerCLI.cs:line 74
   at Stryker.CLI.Program.Main(String[] args) in /_/src/Stryker.CLI/Stryker.CLI/Program.cs:line 14

Are there any workarounds for this, or should I report it as a bug?

The code can be found in my repository

[rouke-broersma]

Hi, we don't support dotnet framework on non-windows platforms sorry. I assume you use mono to make this work? We don't support mono either.

[haakobja]

Ah, ok.. That's too bad.
Yes, I'm implicitly using mono to run the test suite. I guess my only choice is to upgrade the solution to a compatible .net runtime, or go back to using Windows

[rouke-broersma]

Sorry about that. You could try to make Stryker compatible yourself because in all honesty you are probably near to the only person still trying to run dotnet framework in Linux let alone also trying to use Stryker so we won't.