Use Package Manager and Assembly Definition Error

1.Use Package Manager to import TextMeshPro
2.Create Assembly Definition
3.Can not find TextMeshPro

version:
Unity 2018.1.0b9
Package Manager 1.81
TextMeshPro 1.21

 

If you are trying to use Assembly Definitions (.asmdef) for your own scripts, then you will need to manually edit the .asmdef file to add a reference to the appropriate TMP assembly as these are not visible in the Assembly Definition Inspector in the Editor.

The TextMesh Pro assemblies are : "Unity.TextMeshPro" for the runtime assembly and "Unity.TextMeshPro.Editor" for the editor assembly.

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. {
3.     "name": "yourAssembly",
4.     "references": ["Unity.TextMeshPro"],
5.     "optionalUnityReferences": [],
6.     "includePlatforms": [],
7.     "excludePlatforms": [],
8.     "allowUnsafeCode": false
9. }
10.  

 

+1 for the solution. -1 for the workaround, because Unity cannot detect package manager's assembly definitions in the inspector and thus add manual editing.

I have observed some time we have to kill and launch the Unity(2018.1.0b13) to get rid of all compiler errors after the above changes.

 

Is there a better solution planned for this situation?

 

I really love the package manager, but I was hit by this issue as well. Are there plans to allow referencing a package assembly in our custom assemblies without having to manually edit the .asmdef file?

 

This will work nicely. Thank you!

 

How do you actually show the packages folder though?
I only have the Assets folder.

 

I think part of the issue is that the Assembly Definitions (.asmdef) don't get recompiled properly when you import a package.

I tried this too, then close/reopened the editor and everything worked as expected after the editor recompiled my custom assembly definitions.