let bindings are compiled into static members, and in .NET when you have an exception in a static initializer the real exception is masqueraded.
If you turn that into a function call by changing to let result() = doc.GeneratedAt
and printfn "%A" (Pinit.result())
you'll get the real exception:
Only web locations are supported
Portable profiles don't support accessing the file system. So inside the PCL you can either have web urls or load manually from an embedded resource. See here for an example: https://github.com/ovatsus/Apps/blob/master/Trains/Stations.fs#L65. Or you can load the file with File.ReadAllText
in the console project and pass it to the PCL.
This was with a Portable Profile (Legacy) project, which is Profile 47 (and FSharp.Core 2.3.6.0). I then also tested with a Portable Profile project, which is Profile 7 (and FSharp.Core 3.3), and noticed it's not working correctly, it's giving this exception instead
Method not found: 'FSharp.Data.Runtime.JsonValueOptionAndPath FSharp.Data.Runtime.JsonRuntime.TryGetPropertyUnpackedWithPath(FSharp.Data.Runtime.IJsonDocument, System.String)'.
I created a github issue to track that: https://github.com/fsharp/FSharp.Data/issues/521