mono seems to lack msbuild?

[Kreijstal]

Description / Steps to reproduce the issue

When using xbuild it warns about using xbuild and to opt for msbuild, however msys2 doesn't seem to provide the msbuild command.

This was reported but closed
#20082
#19804

Expected behavior

msbuild should be provided with the mono package?

Actual behavior

only xbuild is provided

Verification

• I have verified that my MSYS2 is up-to-date before submitting the report (see https://www.msys2.org/docs/updating/)

Windows Version

MINGW64_NT-10.0-22631

MINGW environments affected

• MINGW64
• MINGW32
• UCRT64
• CLANG64
• CLANGARM64

Are you willing to submit a PR?

No response

[ZachBacon]

Feel free to submit a package pull request. I've tried it and it requires a lot of patching that I don't even want to touch it.

[Kreijstal]

NixOS/nixpkgs#81194

It seems other distros do have issues with msbuild

Other links of interest
dotnet/source-build#1930
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/74609
https://gitlab.winehq.org/mono/mono/-/issues/6

[ZachBacon]

The issues I mention is primarily due to the fact on windows the build system defaults to their own tools, and to try and patch the build system is a lot like trying to untangle spaghetti after it's been cooked, and that's not counting how it would build after the fact. It would be somewhat uncharted territory