Nuget-license does not find packages on Windows Server 2019 Standard 1809

[RoelandNEC]

We are using nuget-license to generate automatically a list of used third party software with our NEC application.
On a development system this works OK, but on the build server not.
Input is the same BCT Agent.csproj file.

Development system: Windows 10 Pro 22H2
D:\trunk> dotnet --list-runtimes
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.36 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 8.0.12 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 9.0.1 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.36 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 7.0.20 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 8.0.12 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 9.0.1 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 6.0.36 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App]
Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 8.0.12 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App]
Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 9.0.1 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App]

Build server Windows Server 2019 Standard 1809
E:\trunk> dotnet --list-runtimes
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.27 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 8.0.2 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 9.0.1 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.27[C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 7.0.20 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 8.0.2 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 9.0.1 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 6.0.27 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App]
Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 8.0.2 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App]
Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 9.0.1 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App]

Output from build server:
+------------------------------------+-------------------------------+
| Package | Version | License Information Origin |
+------------------------------------+-------------------------------+
+------------------------------------+-------------------------------+

Output from development system:
D:\Trunk>nuget-license --version
3.1.1

D:\Trunk>nuget-license -i "D:\trunk\BCT_Agent\BCT Agent\BCT Agent.csproj"
+------------------------------------+---------+
| Package | Version |
+------------------------------------+---------+
| Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR.Client | 2.4.3 |
| Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Debug | 9.0.1 |
| Microsoft.Maui.Controls | 9.0.30 |
| Microsoft.NET.ILLink.Tasks | 9.0.1 |
| Newtonsoft.Json | 13.0.3 |
+------------------------------------+---------+
(I removed everything after version.)

Remove txt from the attached file to try yourself.
BCT Agent.csproj.txt

Notes:

1. The problem depends likely also on the contents for the csproj file, because other csproj files do work on the Build server Windows Server 2019 Standard.
2. The predecessor dotnet-project-licenses.exe version 2.7.1 does give correct contents with BCT Agent.csproj on the Build server Windows Server 2019 Standard.

Please have a look at this.
Thanks,

Roeland

[sensslen]

Thanks a lot for reporting. Would you be able to provide a small reproduction example? Github provides runners based on Windows Server 2019. https://github.com/actions/runner-images/blob/main/images/windows/Windows2019-Readme.md

Unfortunately it will be exceptionally hard to track this down without a way to reproduce the issue.

In general the app works as expected in all scenarios that are ran by the CI pipeline - See https://github.com/sensslen/nuget-license/actions/runs/13277124918/job/37068671976 and https://github.com/sensslen/nuget-license/actions/runs/13277124918/job/37068669986. Granted - one ran on ubuntu

[RoelandNEC]

The problem can be related with "Empty Output after 3.1.0 update" #148.
But I do use version 3.1.1 where #148 is solved and this does not explain why on my development system the problem does not occur.

A colleague of mine also reproduced the problem on a Windows 11 system.
Very likely you will be able to reproduce the problem with the attached BCT Agent.csproj file (just remove .txt) and give command:
CMD>nuget-license -i "BCT Agent.csproj"
Is it possible to get traces out of nuget-license? Then I will be able to give traces from my good working system.

[sensslen]

The problem is not related to #148, as that was only happening for solution files, not project files.

[sensslen]

No traces have been implemented to nuget-license so far. I'll have a look when I get time. However if you want a fix sooner, feel free to download the code and debug it. Any Pull-Request will be highly appreciated.