contributing/development/compiling/compiling_with_dotnet

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contributing/development/compiling/compiling_with_dotnet

Requirements:.NET SDK 8.0+ You can use dotnet --info to check which .NET SDK versions are installed.. Enable the .NET module: By default, the .NET module is disabled when building. To enable it, ad...

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/contributing/development/compiling/compiling_with_dotnet.html

[poglad-ds]

Tips:

• you actually cannot build properly without --push-nupkgs-local as of 4.2 and 4.3, example is not exact in that aspect

• if you tired of ./modules/mono/build_scripts/build_assemblies.py always closing after build, just run it as python ./modules/mono/build_scripts/build_assemblies.py command instead. Requires python 3.6.5+

• just configure PowerShell script to run it from visual studio/rider, dont waste your own time
  -> in that case, Start-Process bin/godot.windows.editor.x86_64.mono.exe -Wait -ArgumentList '--headless --generate-mono-glue modules/mono/glue' would be good choise as second step

[JonPetitta]

Something else not made clear is that the glue you make has to be from the exe you are going to build. Though I think it only comes up cause I did a double build. Was getting marshaling errors. Anyways, the solution. You can do a prebuild with the following scons build flag.

mono_glue=no

With that exe, you can then generate the glue, and build it with build_assemblies.py. Then build the exe again, but leave out the above flag. Now I finally have a mono double build of Godot that doesn't crash or throw exceptions.

[default-kramer]

When I run my exported project, I get a "unable to find the .NET assemblies directory" message. This seems to indicate a problem with the "data directory" mentioned on this page. It's not clear if this "data directory" should automatically be created by the export process, or if I need to manually copy some files from bin/GodotSharp, or what...?

[default-kramer]

Actually, maybe it is clear: "The data directory for exported projects is generated by the editor during the export." So I should see my data directory next to the .exe that is generated, but I don't. I guess I'm using the wrong export template or I built it wrong or something.