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PiMaker / MonikAI

Monika from DDLC keeping you company on your desktop!
MIT License
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Linux Port #13

Closed ghost closed 6 years ago

ghost commented 6 years ago

Is it possible to provide a Linux port of this application?

ghost commented 6 years ago

Have you tried it in wine yet?

zchaudhry11 commented 6 years ago

A Linux port would be very cool, unfortunately, it would likely also be a great deal of work because MonikAI is built on top of .NET Framework which is tightly coupled to Windows.

.NET Core is available and it can be combined with some third party libraries and frameworks to get MonikAI on Linux but this would likely require a lot of additional work.

ghost commented 6 years ago

I tried starting it with wine. I managed to start the .exe using a 32-bit prefix and dotnet46. Unfortunately it doesn't display anything, the last error being wine: Call from 0x7bc51219 to unimplemented function MSVCR100_CLR0400.dll._initterm_e, aborting. It seems to have to problem with PresentationFramework.

Does .NET Core implement the WPF libraries?

zchaudhry11 commented 6 years ago

It doesn't support WPF and it's not on the roadmap either but there have been some frameworks that are looking to fill the gap such as https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia

Everything is still really early alpha so I don't think it would be a straightforward process to rebuild MonikAI to be cross-platform.

PiMaker commented 6 years ago

If anyone wants to look into Wine/Mono/Whatever, feel free to, but for now I won't officially support a Linux or Mac port.