dotnet · rolfbjarne · Jan 15, 2026 · Jan 19, 2026 · Jan 19, 2026 · Jan 19, 2026
@@ -120,9 +120,16 @@ public IEnumerable<ITaskItem> GetAdditionalItemsToBeCopied ()
 			if (FrameworkToPublish is not null) {
 				foreach (var item in FrameworkToPublish) {
 					var fw = item.ItemSpec;
+					var finfo = new FileInfo (fw);
 					// Copy all the files from the framework to the mac (copying only the executable won't work if it's just a symlink to elsewhere)
-					if (File.Exists (fw))
+					if (finfo.Exists) {
+						if (finfo.Length == 0) {
+							// an empty file is most likely an output file from the Mac, so don't overwrite the corresponding file on the Mac with the empty output file from Windows
+							Log.LogMessage (MessageImportance.Low, "Not copying {0} to the Mac, it's an empty file.", fw);
+							continue;
+						}
 						fw = Path.GetDirectoryName (fw);
+					}
 					if (!Directory.Exists (fw))
 						continue;
 					foreach (var file in Directory.EnumerateFiles (fw, "*.*", SearchOption.AllDirectories)) {

@@ -65,7 +65,16 @@ bool ExecuteLocally ()
 			return !Log.HasLoggedErrors;
 		}
 
-		public bool ShouldCopyToBuildServer (ITaskItem item) => true;
+		public bool ShouldCopyToBuildServer (ITaskItem item)
+		{
+			var finfo = new FileInfo (item.ItemSpec);
+			if (finfo.Exists && finfo.Length == 0) {
+				// an empty file is most likely an output file from the Mac, so don't overwrite the corresponding file on the Mac with the empty output file from Windows
+				Log.LogMessage (MessageImportance.Low, "Not copying {0} to the Mac, it's an empty file.", item.ItemSpec);
+				return false;
+			}
+			return true;
+		}
 
 		public bool ShouldCreateOutputFile (ITaskItem item) => false;
 

diff --git a/tests/bindings-framework-test/dotnet/shared.csproj b/tests/bindings-framework-test/dotnet/shared.csproj
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
     <SignAssembly>True</SignAssembly>
     <AssemblyOriginatorKeyFile>..\..\..\..\product.snk</AssemblyOriginatorKeyFile>
     <AssemblyName>bindings-framework-test</AssemblyName>
-    <NoBindingEmbedding>true</NoBindingEmbedding>
+    <NoBindingEmbedding Condition="'$(NoBindingEmbedding)' == ''">true</NoBindingEmbedding>
 
     <RootTestsDirectory>$([System.IO.Path]::GetFullPath('$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)\..\..'))</RootTestsDirectory>
     <TestLibrariesDirectory>$(RootTestsDirectory)\test-libraries</TestLibrariesDirectory>

diff --git a/tests/dotnet/BindingWithEmbeddedFramework/ApiDefinition.cs b/tests/dotnet/BindingWithEmbeddedFramework/ApiDefinition.cs
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+using Foundation;
diff --git a/tests/dotnet/BindingWithEmbeddedFramework/MacCatalyst/BindingWithEmbeddedFramework.csproj b/tests/dotnet/BindingWithEmbeddedFramework/MacCatalyst/BindingWithEmbeddedFramework.csproj
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
+	<PropertyGroup>
+		<TargetFramework>net$(BundledNETCoreAppTargetFrameworkVersion)-maccatalyst</TargetFramework>
+	</PropertyGroup>
+	<Import Project="..\shared.csproj" />
+</Project>
+
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+include ../shared.mk
diff --git a/tests/dotnet/BindingWithEmbeddedFramework/MyClass.cs b/tests/dotnet/BindingWithEmbeddedFramework/MyClass.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+using System;
+namespace BindingWithEmbeddedFramework {
+	public class MyClass {
+		public MyClass ()
+		{
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/tests/dotnet/BindingWithEmbeddedFramework/StructsAndEnums.cs b/tests/dotnet/BindingWithEmbeddedFramework/StructsAndEnums.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
+
+namespace BindingWithEmbeddedFramework {
+	public static class CFunctions {
+		[DllImport ("XTest.framework/XTest")]
+		public static extern int theUltimateAnswer ();
+	}
+}
diff --git a/tests/dotnet/BindingWithEmbeddedFramework/iOS/BindingWithEmbeddedFramework.csproj b/tests/dotnet/BindingWithEmbeddedFramework/iOS/BindingWithEmbeddedFramework.csproj
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
+	<PropertyGroup>
+		<TargetFramework>net$(BundledNETCoreAppTargetFrameworkVersion)-ios</TargetFramework>
+	</PropertyGroup>
+	<Import Project="..\shared.csproj" />
+</Project>
+
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+include ../shared.mk
diff --git a/tests/dotnet/BindingWithEmbeddedFramework/macOS/BindingWithEmbeddedFramework.csproj b/tests/dotnet/BindingWithEmbeddedFramework/macOS/BindingWithEmbeddedFramework.csproj
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
+	<PropertyGroup>
+		<TargetFramework>net$(BundledNETCoreAppTargetFrameworkVersion)-macos</TargetFramework>
+	</PropertyGroup>
+	<Import Project="..\shared.csproj" />
+</Project>
+
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+include ../shared.mk
diff --git a/tests/dotnet/BindingWithEmbeddedFramework/shared.csproj b/tests/dotnet/BindingWithEmbeddedFramework/shared.csproj
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<Project>
+	<PropertyGroup>
+		<IsBindingProject>true</IsBindingProject>
+		<NoBindingEmbedding>false</NoBindingEmbedding>
+	</PropertyGroup>
+
+	<Import Project="../../common/shared-dotnet.csproj" />
+
+	<ItemGroup>
+		<ObjcBindingApiDefinition Include="../ApiDefinition.cs" />
+		<ObjcBindingCoreSource Include="../StructsAndEnums.cs" />
+		<NativeReference Include="../../../test-libraries/.libs/$(NativeLibName)/XTest.framework" Kind="Framework" />
+	</ItemGroup>
+</Project>
diff --git a/tests/dotnet/BindingWithEmbeddedFramework/shared.mk b/tests/dotnet/BindingWithEmbeddedFramework/shared.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+TOP=../../../..
+include $(TOP)/tests/common/shared-dotnet.mk
diff --git a/tests/dotnet/BindingWithEmbeddedFramework/tvOS/BindingWithEmbeddedFramework.csproj b/tests/dotnet/BindingWithEmbeddedFramework/tvOS/BindingWithEmbeddedFramework.csproj
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
+	<PropertyGroup>
+		<TargetFramework>net$(BundledNETCoreAppTargetFrameworkVersion)-tvos</TargetFramework>
+	</PropertyGroup>
+	<Import Project="..\shared.csproj" />
+</Project>
+
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+include ../shared.mk
diff --git a/tests/dotnet/EmbeddedFrameworkInBindingProjectApp/AppDelegate.cs b/tests/dotnet/EmbeddedFrameworkInBindingProjectApp/AppDelegate.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+using System;
+using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
+
+using Foundation;
+
+namespace EmbeddedFrameworkInBindingProjectApp {
+	public class Program {
+		static int Main (string [] args)
+		{
+			Console.WriteLine ($"Embedded framework: {BindingWithEmbeddedFramework.CFunctions.theUltimateAnswer ()}");
+
+			GC.KeepAlive (typeof (NSObject)); // prevent linking away the platform assembly
+
+			Console.WriteLine (Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable ("MAGIC_WORD"));
+
+			return 0;
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/...eddedFrameworkInBindingProjectApp/MacCatalyst/EmbeddedFrameworkInBindingProjectApp.csproj b/...eddedFrameworkInBindingProjectApp/MacCatalyst/EmbeddedFrameworkInBindingProjectApp.csproj
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
+	<PropertyGroup>
+		<TargetFramework>net$(BundledNETCoreAppTargetFrameworkVersion)-maccatalyst</TargetFramework>
+	</PropertyGroup>
+	<Import Project="..\shared.csproj" />
+</Project>
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+include ../shared.mk
diff --git a/...tnet/EmbeddedFrameworkInBindingProjectApp/iOS/EmbeddedFrameworkInBindingProjectApp.csproj b/...tnet/EmbeddedFrameworkInBindingProjectApp/iOS/EmbeddedFrameworkInBindingProjectApp.csproj
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
+	<PropertyGroup>
+		<TargetFramework>net$(BundledNETCoreAppTargetFrameworkVersion)-ios</TargetFramework>
+	</PropertyGroup>
+	<Import Project="..\shared.csproj" />
+</Project>
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+include ../shared.mk
diff --git a/...et/EmbeddedFrameworkInBindingProjectApp/macOS/EmbeddedFrameworkInBindingProjectApp.csproj b/...et/EmbeddedFrameworkInBindingProjectApp/macOS/EmbeddedFrameworkInBindingProjectApp.csproj
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
+	<PropertyGroup>
+		<TargetFramework>net$(BundledNETCoreAppTargetFrameworkVersion)-macos</TargetFramework>
+	</PropertyGroup>
+	<Import Project="..\shared.csproj" />
+</Project>
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+include ../shared.mk
diff --git a/tests/dotnet/EmbeddedFrameworkInBindingProjectApp/shared.csproj b/tests/dotnet/EmbeddedFrameworkInBindingProjectApp/shared.csproj
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<Project>
+	<PropertyGroup>
+		<OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
+
+		<ApplicationTitle>EmbeddedFrameworkInBindingProjectApp</ApplicationTitle>
+		<ApplicationId>com.xamarin.embeddedframeworkinbindingprojectapp</ApplicationId>
+		<ApplicationVersion>1.0</ApplicationVersion>
+	</PropertyGroup>
+
+	<Import Project="../../common/shared-dotnet.csproj" />
+
+	<ItemGroup>
+		<ProjectReference Include="..\..\BindingWithEmbeddedFramework\$(_PlatformName)\BindingWithEmbeddedFramework.csproj" />
+	</ItemGroup>
+
+	<ItemGroup>
+		<Compile Include="../*.cs" />
+	</ItemGroup>
+</Project>
diff --git a/tests/dotnet/EmbeddedFrameworkInBindingProjectApp/shared.mk b/tests/dotnet/EmbeddedFrameworkInBindingProjectApp/shared.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+TOP=../../../..
+TESTNAME=EmbeddedFrameworkInBindingProjectApp
+include $(TOP)/tests/common/shared-dotnet.mk
diff --git a/...net/EmbeddedFrameworkInBindingProjectApp/tvOS/EmbeddedFrameworkInBindingProjectApp.csproj b/...net/EmbeddedFrameworkInBindingProjectApp/tvOS/EmbeddedFrameworkInBindingProjectApp.csproj
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
+	<PropertyGroup>
+		<TargetFramework>net$(BundledNETCoreAppTargetFrameworkVersion)-tvos</TargetFramework>
+	</PropertyGroup>
+	<Import Project="..\shared.csproj" />
+</Project>
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+include ../shared.mk
diff --git a/tests/dotnet/UnitTests/WindowsTest.cs b/tests/dotnet/UnitTests/WindowsTest.cs
@@ -327,6 +327,25 @@ public void PluralRuntimeIdentifiersWithRemoteMac (ApplePlatform platform, strin
 			DotNetProjectTest.PluralRuntimeIdentifiersImpl (platform, runtimeIdentifiers, properties);
 		}
 
+		[Category ("RemoteWindows")]
+		[TestCase (ApplePlatform.iOS, "iossimulator-arm64")]
+		public void BuildEmbeddedFrameworkInBindingProjectApp (ApplePlatform platform, string runtimeIdentifiers)
+		{
+			var project = "EmbeddedFrameworkInBindingProjectApp";
+			var configuration = "Debug";
+
+			Configuration.IgnoreIfIgnoredPlatform (platform);
+			Configuration.AssertRuntimeIdentifiersAvailable (platform, runtimeIdentifiers);
+			Configuration.IgnoreIfNotOnWindows ();
+
+			var project_path = GetProjectPath (project, runtimeIdentifiers: runtimeIdentifiers, platform: platform, out var appPath, configuration: configuration);
+			Clean (project_path);
+
+			var properties = GetDefaultProperties (runtimeIdentifiers);
+
+			DotNet.AssertBuild (project_path, properties, timeout: TimeSpan.FromMinutes (15));
+		}
+
 		static void AssertWarningsEqual (IList<string> expected, IList<string> actual, string message)
 		{
 			if (expected.Count == actual.Count) {
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		@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
		TOP=../../../..
		include $(TOP)/tests/common/shared-dotnet.mk