Monogame Templates on MonoDevelop Not Creating Project

strainger · November 19, 2017, 8:46am

I’m at the last step before I get to try Monogame out and I am having a problem with the monogame project creator on MonoDevelop.

I’ve installed MonoDevelop-alpha using flatpak as that is the recommended way to get MonoDevelop on openSUSE, I have all required dependencies, as shown when I re-run the installer. (I have the MonoGame Pipeline Tool)

Dependencies:

mono-runtime…[Found]
gtk-sharp3…[Found]

Optional Dependencies:

MonoDevelop 6…[Not Found]
Rider…[Not Found]
referenceassemblies-pcl / mono-pcl…[Found]
ttf-mscorefonts-installer / mscore-fonts…[Not Found]

My version of MonoDevelop is 7.2.2. I have installed the monogame addins for MonoDevelop 7. I click on New Solution in MonoDevelop and in Miscellaneous I see “MonoGame Solution/Project” I click on that and hit next. I name the project and choose a directory and then click on Create. My problem is the window sticks on create like it is waiting for more input. I watched a youtube video and I see that when create is clicked another window should pop up to create the project. This window does not display on my computer. All I see when I click create is the same window. I can click on cancel and see that a folder was created that contains an empty folder, a .sln file, and a .userprefs file.

My guess is that the problem may be because of flatpak. I’m not knowledgeable on the tool as I just installed it earlier to get MonoDevelop on my computer without having to build from scratch, but I remember reading that it is basically a sandbox for applications. Could the way flatpak runs be blocking a new window from being created? Has anyone dealt with something like this before? From what I know I have everything installed, the problem is just this creator. So if nobody has a solution could someone direct me to a github repo or the like to use as a project builder. Is it in the works to have an official project creator like the creator for LibGDX?

Sorry for the long question. Any help will help.

Thanks,

Rainger

harry-cpp · November 19, 2017, 12:24pm

You need specifically MonoDevelop 6 for the templates. Also flatpak version will not be able to run MonoGame projects.

Read up: Installing MonoGame 3.6 on Linux

strainger · November 19, 2017, 5:48pm

I read that before posting and assumed that the package you provided could be replaced by the newest version of monodevelop but I was wrong at that I see.

I followed your instructions, I installed mono and monodevelop, I opened monodevelop and compiled a project just to make sure all was in place. I then built your github package using your directions. I got an error stating that glib-sharp2 could not be found. I then installed glib-sharp2, which was available with my package manager. Now when I run your package, monodevelop-stable, I get no error like I did when I didn’t have glib-sharp2, It shows me running the command, a second goes by, and then my terminal shows my user name like it is awaiting a command. So it crashes without any errors to the console.

So this is what I did to accidentally got a monogame project RUNNIN!

I installed the MonoDevelop6 source from here
http://download.mono-project.com/sources/monodevelop/

I ran ./configure and it said I needed msmerge, which is available through the below command on openSUSE.

sudo zypper install intltool

Running configure again showed me that I needed to install gtk-sharp-2.0, which I had v3 not v2.

sudo zypper install gtk-sharp2

I then found that I needed glade-sharp-2 which my package manager did not have, BUT I went back and ran your monodevelop-stable package and it ran this time!

I removed my monodevelop source and opened your packaged version. All worked perfectly, though there is still problems building F# applications or applications that require an external console, but I’ll take it!

Thanks again for your package and for being active on here. I tried to be thorough with my process to help others if they run into anything that I did.