I recently got a rpi and was wanting to work on my game on it. is there any way for me to use VScode to build and develop it? I have looked into this quit a lot, but I havent found a solution yet.
Uuuuh… If you’re tight on money, you can get an old office tower for next to nothing. Just saying.
I like the small form factor of the pi, I have a x86 computer but the pi I can take anywhere with me. I got it for free from a friend.
Compiling my game to armfh whenever I need to test it is really all i’m looking for
Maybe its enough to just install sdl2 and openal from the package manager of your operating system?
Ill try that!
I just tested it by publishing the game and moving it over to a fresh installed raspberry pi os.
It worked out of the box! libopenal and libsdl2 are pre-installed.
Yea same for me, both libraries where installed, I got dotnet 6 and 3 installed a few days ago, there is no run button like there is on x86 platforms, But I can build it manually with: dotnet build [YourGameNameHere].sln but when I do that get get this error:
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/media/minystreem/EEFC-0D5D/Together/Content/dirt.png
/media/minystreem/EEFC-0D5D/Together/Content/dirt.png : error : Importer 'TextureImporter' had unexpected failure! [/media/minystreem/EEFC-0D5D/Together/Together.csproj]
System.DllNotFoundException: Unable to load shared library 'FreeImage' or one of its dependencies. In order to help diagnose loading problems, consider setting the LD_DEBUG environment variable: libFreeImage: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
at FreeImageAPI.FreeImage.GetFileTypeS(String filename, Int32 size)
at FreeImageAPI.FreeImage.GetFileType(String filename, Int32 size) in C:\BuildAgents\MonoGameWin1\work\f7381a85a626990\MonoGame.Framework.Content.Pipeline\Utilities\FreeImageAPI.cs:line 122
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.TextureImporter.Import(String filename, ContentImporterContext context) in C:\BuildAgents\MonoGameWin1\work\f7381a85a626990\MonoGame.Framework.Content.Pipeline\TextureImporter.cs:line 83
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.ContentImporter`1.Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.IContentImporter.Import(String filename, ContentImporterContext context) in C:\BuildAgents\MonoGameWin1\work\f7381a85a626990\MonoGame.Framework.Content.Pipeline\ContentImporter.cs:line 45
at MonoGame.Framework.Content.Pipeline.Builder.PipelineManager.ProcessContent(PipelineBuildEvent pipelineEvent) in C:\BuildAgents\MonoGameWin1\work\f7381a85a626990\MonoGame.Framework.Content.Pipeline\Builder\PipelineManager.cs:line 669
/media/minystreem/EEFC-0D5D/Together/Content/player.png
/media/minystreem/EEFC-0D5D/Together/Content/player.png : error : Importer 'TextureImporter' had unexpected failure! [/media/minystreem/EEFC-0D5D/Together/Together.csproj]
System.DllNotFoundException: Unable to load shared library 'FreeImage' or one of its dependencies. In order to help diagnose loading problems, consider setting the LD_DEBUG environment variable: libFreeImage: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
at FreeImageAPI.FreeImage.GetFileTypeS(String filename, Int32 size)
at FreeImageAPI.FreeImage.GetFileType(String filename, Int32 size) in C:\BuildAgents\MonoGameWin1\work\f7381a85a626990\MonoGame.Framework.Content.Pipeline\Utilities\FreeImageAPI.cs:line 122
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.TextureImporter.Import(String filename, ContentImporterContext context) in C:\BuildAgents\MonoGameWin1\work\f7381a85a626990\MonoGame.Framework.Content.Pipeline\TextureImporter.cs:line 83
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.ContentImporter`1.Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.IContentImporter.Import(String filename, ContentImporterContext context) in C:\BuildAgents\MonoGameWin1\work\f7381a85a626990\MonoGame.Framework.Content.Pipeline\ContentImporter.cs:line 45
at MonoGame.Framework.Content.Pipeline.Builder.PipelineManager.ProcessContent(PipelineBuildEvent pipelineEvent) in C:\BuildAgents\MonoGameWin1\work\f7381a85a626990\MonoGame.Framework.Content.Pipeline\Builder\PipelineManager.cs:line 669
/home/minystreem/.nuget/packages/monogame.content.builder.task/3.8.0.1641/build/MonoGame.Content.Builder.Task.targets(138,5): error MSB3073: The command "dotnet /home/minystreem/.nuget/packages/monogame.content.builder.task/3.8.0.1641/build//../tools/netcoreapp3.1/any/mgcb.dll /quiet /@:"/media/minystreem/EEFC-0D5D/Together/Content/Content.mgcb" /platform:DesktopGL /outputDir:"/media/minystreem/EEFC-0D5D/Together/Content/bin/DesktopGL/Content" /intermediateDir:"/media/minystreem/EEFC-0D5D/Together/Content/obj/DesktopGL/Content" /workingDir:"/media/minystreem/EEFC-0D5D/Together/Content/"" exited with code 2. [/media/minystreem/EEFC-0D5D/Together/Together.csproj]
Build FAILED.
/media/minystreem/EEFC-0D5D/Together/Content/dirt.png : error : Importer 'TextureImporter' had unexpected failure! [/media/minystreem/EEFC-0D5D/Together/Together.csproj]
/media/minystreem/EEFC-0D5D/Together/Content/player.png : error : Importer 'TextureImporter' had unexpected failure! [/media/minystreem/EEFC-0D5D/Together/Together.csproj]
/home/minystreem/.nuget/packages/monogame.content.builder.task/3.8.0.1641/build/MonoGame.Content.Builder.Task.targets(138,5): error MSB3073: The command "dotnet /home/minystreem/.nuget/packages/monogame.content.builder.task/3.8.0.1641/build//../tools/netcoreapp3.1/any/mgcb.dll /quiet /@:"/media/minystreem/EEFC-0D5D/Together/Content/Content.mgcb" /platform:DesktopGL /outputDir:"/media/minystreem/EEFC-0D5D/Together/Content/bin/DesktopGL/Content" /intermediateDir:"/media/minystreem/EEFC-0D5D/Together/Content/obj/DesktopGL/Content" /workingDir:"/media/minystreem/EEFC-0D5D/Together/Content/"" exited with code 2. [/media/minystreem/EEFC-0D5D/Together/Together.csproj]
0 Warning(s)
3 Error(s)
Time Elapsed 00:00:15.95
I have not found out how to fix it yet, what did you do to run it on your pi?
- I created a new DesktopGL project, using Monogame 3.8.1.303
- Added this line to the csproj file:
<PublishSingleFile>true</PublishSingleFile> - Run the command:
dotnet publish -r linux-arm --self-contained - Copied the bin/Debug/net6.0/linux-arm/publish/ Folder over to the raspberry pi
- Ran the executable
I’ll try it out
I did that but still got the same error
Maybe try to sudo apt install libfreeimage3
Are you developing on the Pi? I build the game on a x64 machine and then copied the output over to the pi.
Yea that was my goal, to develop on a pi
Btw. I used dotnet 6 with the latest monogame version.
me too
Monogame is using a lot of dependencies. Most of these “blobs” only come prebuild for x86 and x64 as .so or .dll file.
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@minystreem Good news. I got monogame to build on a pi, but only without the content builder.
Also take a look at this discussion:
The problem and the only problem, is to have a arm build for all dependencies:
In the meanwhile you could load your Assets from File. For example:
public static Texture2D FromFile(GraphicsDevice graphicsDevice, string path)
Sorry for the late response. I was able to get a blank monogame project compiled and running, but I can’t open the mbgc editor to add images, so the images in my game is whats causing it to not build.
just realized your have the same problem XD, I might just use qemu to run windows.