Seting $(TargetName) doesn't change the name of the generated .pri file

[cosmin42]

Building a WinUI3 application which was just created, like the one attached, a resources.pri file is generated.

The name of the .pri file should be $(RootNamespace).pri which in this case is ExampleApp.pri.

Under the default generated vcxproj there is the below comment

    <!--
      $(TargetName) should be same as $(RootNamespace) so that the produced binaries (.exe/.pri/etc.)
      have a name that matches the .winmd
    -->

Setting the Target name as $(RootNamespace) doesn't change the name of resources.pri .

This creates a further problem when another WinUI3 project depends of the fist one because the .pri files will have the same name and there will be a merge problem like in the error below:

20>   Creating library C:\Users\username\Windows\src\\generated\output\x64\Debug\ProjectB\ProjectB.lib and object C:\Users\username\Windows\src\\generated\output\x64\Debug\ProjectB\ProjectB.exp
20>ProjectB.vcxproj -> C:\Users\username\Windows\src\generated\output\x64\Debug\ProjectB\ProjectB.dll
20>C:\Users\username\Windows\src\packages\Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK.1.0.1\build\Microsoft.Build.Msix.Packaging.targets(1379,5): error APPX1101: Payload contains two or more files with the same destination path 'resources.pri'. Source files: 
20>C:\Users\username\Windows\src\packages\Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK.1.0.1\build\Microsoft.Build.Msix.Packaging.targets(1379,5): error APPX1101: C:\Users\username\Windows\src\generated\output\x64\Debug\ProjectB\resources.pri
20>C:\Users\username\Windows\src\packages\Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK.1.0.1\build\Microsoft.Build.Msix.Packaging.targets(1379,5): error APPX1101: C:\Users\username\Windows\src\generated\output\x64\Debug\ProjectA\resources.pri
20>Done building project "ProjectB.vcxproj" -- FAILED.

This is the case for both the 1.0.1 and 1.0.0 versions of WindowsAppSDK.

I attached a simple WinUI3 project that generates resources.pri instead of ExampleApp.pri .

ExampleApp.zip

[marb2000]

Thanks, @cosmin42 for the question.

Resources.pri is the final name for the app’s .pri file. The comment in the project template concerns the naming of the intermediate .pri file that gets produced as part of the build. So the behavior they’re seeing is by design.

Hope this helps to clarify your doubt.

[cosmin42]

@marb2000 thanks for answering, if the resources.pri is the right naming then what could be the reason of the error "Payload contains two or more files with the same destination path"? Is there a configuration that I can do to change the name of resources.pri?
I attached a Diagnostic build log.

I tried different versions of WinAppSdk (1.0.0, 1.02, the preview version) but I get the same error.
build_log.txt