cswinrt.sln doesn't build

[asklar]

Is the SLN file up to date? Looks like there are several problems, e.g. it references a BenchmarkComponent.vcxproj that doesn't exist

The WinUIDesktopSample has build errors too:

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Microsoft Visual Studio
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The debug executable 'C:\Users\asklar\source\repos\cswinrt\src\Samples\WinUIDesktopSample\bin\x86\Debug\net5.0-windows10.0.19041.0\WinUIDesktopSample.exe' specified in the 'WinUIDesktopSample' debug profile does not exist.
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OK   
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Could someone add some details in the CONTRIBUTING.md file as to how one can build this project including tests and samples? Is this supposed to be built for any cpu or x86, etc.?

[huoyaoyuan]

You need to initialize submodules with some script. I forget the script name.

build.cmd should be updated to invoke the script.

[j0shuams]

Just running build uses platform x64. I agree it would be good if we had a bit more explaining how the script works, such as explaining the optional parameters. For AnyCPU, I don't think we want to support that, but you could specify Debug or Release as one of the arguments to build (seen in above link)