Export documentation broken on linux/mono

[aquaid3]

When running the latest build v4.0-51-g2d9b1ad exe file on Linux (Lubuntu 20.04 or Debian 11) with mono 6.8.0.105, I get the following error when trying to export Documentation (Ctrl-P), even with a new default OD file:

System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (0x80004005): Cannot find the specified file
  at System.Diagnostics.Process.StartWithShellExecuteEx (System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo startInfo) [0x00129] in <a85c1a570f9a4f9f9c3d2cfa5504e34f>:0 
  at System.Diagnostics.Process.Start () [0x00038] in <a85c1a570f9a4f9f9c3d2cfa5504e34f>:0 
  at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) System.Diagnostics.Process.Start()
  at System.Diagnostics.Process.Start (System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo startInfo) [0x0001e] in <a85c1a570f9a4f9f9c3d2cfa5504e34f>:0 
  at System.Diagnostics.Process.Start (System.String fileName) [0x00006] in <a85c1a570f9a4f9f9c3d2cfa5504e34f>:0 
  at ODEditor.ODEditor_MainForm.documentationToolStripMenuItem_Click (System.Object sender, System.EventArgs e) [0x00111] in <430ff197535c448e93032a5323a38e45>:0 

This used to work for me on Linux a while back. I don't know if it was a change to CANopenEditor or an update to mono that broke things. Thanks for any help.

[trojanobelix]

Please test the latest commit of the bugfix branch. It might be solved there. I have not the environment to check it.

[aquaid3]

Unfortunately, building on Linux also seems to be broken. (I tried xbuild and dotnet msbuild).

Is there a pre-built .exe for the bugfix branch I can test?

[trojanobelix]

What does "seems to be broken" mean? Only on the bugfix branch?

[aquaid3]

Sorry, by "seems to be broken" I meant that I couldn't get the bugfix branch code to build on my linux system. I also tried building the main branch and it throws similar errors. I don't use mono for anything else, so I'm not confident that mono or dotnet is installed properly or with the appropriate versions.

In case it's helpful to someone, see linux-compile-bugfix.txt for output from failed xbuild and dotnet build calls.

But since then, I also realized the newer CANopenEditor versions have an Export->Documentation (*.md) option, which does work. (My original error report above is for Reports->Documentation which I think also tries to open a browser to view the newly generated .md file.)

I can also run the pre-compiled binaries on linux without having to compile anything, so the obvious workaround is to do that and then stay away from the Reports->Documentation menu option.

[trojanobelix]

seems that the .NET Framework Developer Packs are not installed!?