Linux Release Support?

[ThisNekoGuy]

I wanted to ask if it would be feasible to produce a native Linux release seeing as zEdit is an electron project? The compilation explanation says that the project is Windows specific, so I figured I'd inquire about the future.

I asked ElminsterAU about doing so for xEdit but claimed that it isn't possible to do some for base xEdit a few reasons...

[Drakonas]

I fail to see how this helps when most tools for the games this supports are Windows-only. What would porting this to Linux accomplish? Can't wine or similar projects be made to run them anyway? Secondly, I feel this is too much work to ask a developer to simply "port to Linux", when there are probably less than 0.1% of users playing these games on Linux.

If someone is going to port this, it'd probably need to be someone else.

[ThisNekoGuy]

@Drakonas First of all, not everything is dependant on Win32, so it's not "unreasonable" to ask of a Linux port for anything

Second of all, the games work 100% fine in Linux

Third, %0.1 percent of PC users still amounts to hundreds of thousands to millions of users; so no, this is not an unreasonable request especially when this project is built on JavaScript and CSS of all things.

It's completely feasible.

[Arsakes]

So has anyone figured out how to run this tool on linux?

[lucifertdark]

I have it running with the latest version of Wine in Linux. It's a bit slow but usable.

[ThisNekoGuy]

Wine's been able to run it for a while; it just doesn't run well in my experience

[keturn]

The biggest hurdle I see to this is that it needs https://github.com/matortheeternal/xedit-lib.

So you'd need to either figure out how to build that to a Linux library format, or have https://github.com/z-edit/xelib figure out how to do foreign function invocation of things in a .dll file even while it's running on a Linux platform.

[ThisNekoGuy]

@keturn I was talking to Mator about this a while ago; esper is a replacement he's been working on that's essentially going to be the solution to this problem

[hawari21]

I cant get this software work again after i switched to Ubuntu, strangely on my Arch Linux this things is run just fine although it is so slow and sometimes crash. I tried to install via Wine as usuall but it just wont show anything on Ubuntu 22, hell without this software i cannot merges my mod anymore and i really need solution how to fix it....maybe there is something wrong with wine since wine stable branch is not available on Ubuntu 22 yet...

PS : With this wonderfull software i can run more than 400 mods on Linux (no kidding)

Edit : Eh, nevermind. Suddenly after i switched to Wine Development Branch and restart it is finally work!

[ThisNekoGuy]

@hawari21 I would suggest you turn to the appropriate forum for that, such as the WineHQ forums or a Proton issue page, if you are using that.

That aside, I would also suggest trying to install vcrun verbs with Winetricks and/or .NET; focusing on getting this natively running rather than through Wine (properly) is likely more achievable (in time), but if the issue is with Plain Wine and your issue is a regression, you can open a bug report there to get that looked at (and preferably link the bug to their application database as well, if applicable).

------- Original Message ------- On Saturday, April 30th, 2022 at 9:25 PM, hawari21 @.***> wrote:

I cant get this software work again after i switched to Ubuntu, strangely on my Arch Linux this things is run just fine although it is so slow and sometimes crash. I tried to install via Wine as usuall but it just wont show anything on Ubuntu 22, hell without this software i cannot merges my mod anymore and i really need solution how to fix it....maybe there is something wrong with wine since wine stable bracnh is not available on Ubuntu 22 yet...

PS : With this wonderfull software i can run more than 400 mods on Linux (no kidding)

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