ouitard Posted December 20, 2015 Author Share Posted December 20, 2015 any work on linux platforms? or any other plateforms other than windows? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 No sadly. There will more than likely be no progress made here unless a Linux / Mac developer came on and help. There are just not enough resources right now to make that work. There is a hope though. The reason why LaunchBox isn't working right now in Linux through Wine is .Net's fault. Direct X works fine in Wine (otherwise games wouldn't work) but Mono isn't a good enough replacement for .Net. Supposedly the next major version of .Net is supposed to either allow it to work in Wine or allow someone to be able to get it to work in Wine. Either way, when we can make it work there (albeit in Wine) the user base will know about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 It's actually more native Linux, not wine. .NET is making great strides right now on Linux, so it is likely that we may see LaunchBox on Linux in the semi-near future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CliveBarker Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 SentaiBrad said No sadly. There will more than likely be no progress made here unless a Linux / Mac developer came on and help. There are just not enough resources right now to make that work. There is a hope though. The reason why LaunchBox isn't working right now in Linux through Wine is .Net's fault. Direct X works fine in Wine (otherwise games wouldn't work) but Mono isn't a good enough replacement for .Net. Supposedly the next major version of .Net is supposed to either allow it to work in Wine or allow someone to be able to get it to work in Wine. Either way, when we can make it work there (albeit in Wine) the user base will know about it. Wine 1.8 was released yesterday with big improvements, maybe someone can test it, I don't have any linux distros at hand and my download monthly cap has been reached. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 It wasn't really Wines problem to begin with. The .net installer doesn't want to function in Wine. Unless they made mono competent or figured out a workaround for the installer I don't think it will make a lick of difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 They are using a lot of Mono code and literally re-structuring and re-coding .NET to be more platform-agnostic. So the solution has nothing to do with Wine, yeah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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