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Typescript build with project references fails with `Output file has not been built from source file` even though it was built

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I'm trying to build a project that references a shared project alongside it. My configs look like:

projectA/tsconfig.json :

"compilerOptions": { "module": "commonjs", "noImplicitReturns": true, "lib": [ "esnext.asynciterable" "noUnusedLocals": true, "outDir": "lib", "sourceMap": true, "strict": true, "target": "es2017" "compileOnSave": true, "include": [ "src" "references": [ "path": "../shared", "prepend": true

shared/tsconfig.json :

"compilerOptions": { "outFile": "build/out.js", "composite": true, "target": "es5", "module": "amd", "declaration": true, "strict": true, "moduleResolution": "node", "esModuleInterop": true, "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true "include": [ "src"

running ts -b from inside projectA yields:

src/index.ts:6:24 - error TS6305: Output file '.../shared/build/out.d.ts' has not been built from source file '.../shared/src/index.ts'.
6 import DummyClass from '../../shared/src';
Even though this file is indeed created.
What am I doing wrong?
                @james I too am running into this. I don't have a full solution, but it appears circular references may be involved. See here for a start (the page I was on before my search led to here)
– acat
                Mar 27, 2022 at 2:25
                I've actually changed my approach here if this helps anyway.  I do have a shared library project to a similar setup, but as a far of my ProjectA I've added a build.sh. I adjusted my package.json to include a "build" script that executes build.sh. Build.sh then copies my needed libraries into project A and runs a webpack with a tsloader so i'm actually pulling these into the project locally.  Probably not the greatest but it got me moving.
– james
                Mar 27, 2022 at 16:21
For me, the solution was to run npx tsc -b on the referenced-project directory, which requires npx to tell the typescript compiler (tsc) to build (-b). You can probably add this step to your compilation pipeline.
Perhaps an easier method is to tell typescript to do that itself by running tsc -b in the npm build script of your main project (you can learn more here).
        
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