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Comment by octopoc | Hacker News Reader

.NET standard isn’t the biggest issue with making source generators. You can’t add dependencies to your project, which is an absolutely huge oversight IMO.

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You can add dependencies, it's just important, that you also add the dependencies to the project where the source generator is used:

SourceGenerator.csproj:

  <ProjectReference Include="..\Dependency.csproj" />

FinalProject.csproj:

  <ProjectReference Include="..\Dependency.csproj" OutputItemType="Analyzer" ReferenceOutputAssembly="false" />
  <ProjectReference Include="..\SourceGenerator.csproj" OutputItemType="Analyzer" ReferenceOutputAssembly="false" />

And I also recommend to add "<LangVersion>latest</LangVersion>" to SourceGenerator.csproj to use new features like raw string literals.

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