Cannot start MAUI app on dotnet 8

[achobanov]

I have an existing project that I'm able to run from VS Code running on Windows, but not on MacOS. After a whole day of wrestling with MAUI stuff on dotnet 7, I've updated all projects to target net8 and now the project builds successfully, however it still fails to startup:

launch: program '/bin/Debug/net8.0-maccatalyst/App' does not exist.

I'm pretty sure VS Code is looking at the wrong path, because the projects targets maccatalyst, which has subcategories. In this case the actual path where you can find the dlls is:

<project-path>/bin/Debug/net8.0-maccatalyst/maccatalyst-x64

I'm able to startup a fresh template MAUI solution no problem.

[emaf]

Do you have a launch.json file in your workspace?

Also, could you share the terminal output?

[achobanov]

@emaf I eventually got it to work. There were some leftover build errors, which aren't very obvious in VS Code so it took me a while to resolve all of them.

[github-actions]

@emaf, the 'needs-more-info' label has been removed upon receiving further response from the original bug filer.