appxsym generated by wap project does not contain exe pdb when publish with native aot

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Describe the bug

appxsym generated by wap project does not contain exe pdb when publish with native aot. Only pdbs for dll are present. If publishing without native aot, everything is ok.
My ide is visual studio 2026.

Steps to reproduce the bug

Clone this demo repository and run this command:

MSBuild.exe .\WapProj.wapproj -restore /t:Publish /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform=x64 /p:RuntimeIdentifier=win-x64

Expected behavior

Generated appxsym should contain pdbs for project A and B.

Screenshots

This is appxsym content

This is build result

NuGet package version

None

Packaging type

Packaged (MSIX)

Windows version

Windows 10 version 1809 (17763, October 2018 Update)

IDE

Visual Studio 2022

Additional context

No response

[zhuxb711]

Same here, any progress could share? @lauren-ciha @guimafelipe

[zhuxb711]

For AOT project:

Package using WAP missing the PDB totally: #6208
Single Packaging MSIX include managed PDB incorrectly: #5415

I think we should have a fix for the issue above @guimafelipe @lauren-ciha @Scottj1s

[zhuxb711]

A workaround to add the native AOT PDB into .appxsym.
However this only modify the final .appxsym simply. Tools like Sentry would not be able to include the AOT PDB still because AOT PDB is not consider as the publish content.

  <!-- Add NativeAOT PDB to appxsym as workaround for https://github.com/microsoft/WindowsAppSDK/issues/6208 -->
  <Target Name="AddNativeAOTPdbToAppxSym" AfterTargets="_GenerateAppxSymbolPackage" BeforeTargets="_CopyAppxSymToOutput">
    <PropertyGroup>
      <SymbolFolder>$(IntermediateOutputPath)\Symbols\</SymbolFolder>
      <AOTNativePdb>$(SolutionDir)\Your_AOT_Project_Name\bin\$(Platform)\$(Configuration)\net10.0-windows$(TargetPlatformVersion)\$(RuntimeIdentifier)\native\Your_AOT_Project_Name.pdb</AOTNativePdb>
    </PropertyGroup>
    <Message Condition="Exists('$(AOTNativePdb)')" Text="Detected NativeAOT PDB: $(AOTNativePdb)" />
    <Warning Condition="!Exists('$(AOTNativePdb)')" Text="NativeAOT PDB not found: $(AOTNativePdb)" />
    <Exec Condition="Exists('$(AOTNativePdb)')"
          Command="Powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command &quot;$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'; Import-Module Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive; $Appxsym = Get-ChildItem '$(SymbolFolder)*.appxsym' | Select-Object -First 1; $Zip = $Appxsym.FullName -Replace '\.appxsym$','.zip'; Rename-Item -Force $Appxsym.FullName $Zip; Compress-Archive -Path '$(AOTNativePdb)' -DestinationPath $Zip -Update; Rename-Item -Force $Zip ($Zip -Replace '\.zip$','.appxsym')&quot;"/>
    <Message Importance="high" Text="Added NativeAOT PDB to appxsym successfully" />
  </Target>

[guimafelipe]

@zhuxb711 Thank you for posting your workaround. This issue is on my list for the next days on MSIX build tools. I will keep you posted.

[zhuxb711]

Microsoft.Windows.SDK.BuildTools 10.0.28000.1721 did not fixed this issue