MonoGame 3.8 on Linux

Linux
1

Hello everyone

I recently updated from 3.7 to 3.8 (something like that) and I have noticed that my game does not run on Linux any more.

Now, I have created a new project (something like: Creating a Project with Visual Studio 2022 | MonoGame Documentation, also in visual Studio 2019) and I have compiled it (like in the old times with MonoGame < 3.8). On Windows everything worked fine. Those are my created dependencies from Visual Studio and the MonoGame template:

Dependencies in Visual Studio 2019
Dependencies in Visual Studio 2019645×592 22.7 KB

So I went to my linux system where i used / still use to test my projects and ran into following message:

Cannot open assembly ‘testLinux.exe’: File does not contain a valid CIL image.

Debian Buster with MonoGame 3.8
Debian Buster with MonoGame 3.81959×1283 194 KB

This sounds a bit technical to me. What do I do wrong?

Thank you
Andru

2

You have to install the .NET Core SDKs for Linux: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download

Then you can do dotnet run.

I wrote some info here: https://learn-monogame.github.io/getting-started/

3

Hi Apostolique

Every command works except this one:
mgcb-editor --register

bash tells me: mgcb-editor: Command not found.

I tried it with .net 5 and .net 3.1. The installation of .net.core 3.1 seemed to work. When I type in
dotnet --version I get the correct answer : 3.1.404

Also:
dotnet tool install --global dotnet-mgcb-editor
seemed to work fine.

Kind Regards
Andru

4

Hi Apostolique

Well, even if the command " mgcb-editor --register" does not execute on my computer, i can run .dotnet applications now successfully.

Thank you.

5

Thanks for the feedback, I’ll have to note that. That command is meant to allow you to open.mgcb files with the GUI app. I guess it doesn’t work because you don’t have the dotnet tools directory in your path. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/dotnet-tool-install#description

On Windows that gets added automatically iirc.