Microsoft.Quantum.Canon.nuspec missing

Question

I am playing around with Microsoft's Q# library, and I've gone through the install, however the build is failing and I am having a tough time figuring out the problem. My first suspicion is Microsoft.Quantum.Canon

EXEC : error QS1001: Assembly E:\Projects\Quantum\Microsoft.Quantum.Canon\bin\Debug\Microsoft.Quantum.Canon.dll not found

I also have noticed Microsoft.Quantum.Canon.nuspec is missing. I've tried to do a Nuget.exe restore on the solutions but that did not work.

Has anyone worked through this?

Answer 1

It's been reported on GitHub already, although it appears to be intentional. See the comments in the .gitignore file:

# These files are generated by bootstrap from a .v.template (version template). 
# Any changes must be done to the corresponding the .v.template file directly
Microsoft.Quantum.Canon/Microsoft.Quantum.Canon.nuspec

I can't find any info on this .v.template file, probably it's part of internal Microsoft build tooling. You can copy the template file and fill in the missing parameters if you wish, but the file not existing doesn't make the build fail , does it?