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BrawlBox and BrawlLib
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Port to .NET Core and other platforms #181

Closed Exagone313 closed 5 years ago

Exagone313 commented 6 years ago

Hi,

I'm actually using BrawlBox via Wine on GNU/Linux and it works fine (not many glitches), but it would be nice if it could be native. I have no knowledge in C# and .NET Framework and I'm told there are differences with .NET Core (for example, the minimum target version, 4.6.2 rather than 4.0.0). Also, I don't know if .NET Core has all needed features (I'm not even sure if it supports GUI...). I see also that it has a part in Python, what about it?

Do you have any thought? Thanks!

libertyernie commented 6 years ago

.NET Core is going to get Windows Forms support in version 3, but only on Windows (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/05/07/net-core-3-and-support-for-windows-desktop-applications/) so there's not much reason to use it.

It does mostly work on Mono, though. You should use the 32-bit version of Mono if you can - not all of BrawlBox is built to work with 64-bit pointers. Mono's implementation of Windows Forms is pretty complete but also pretty ugly :)

Sammi-Husky commented 6 years ago

If .NET Core ever supports winforms on platforms other than windows we can look into this again, but im going to close the issue for now since the decision is currently a no.

libertyernie commented 5 years ago

.NET Core 3.0 adds support for WinForms (only on Windows, though). It might be nice to try doing this in a separate branch once it gets released.