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Jumar Macato edited this page Jul 4, 2018 · 9 revisions

Windows

  • You need Win8+ or Win7 with platform update to use Direct2D backend (you won't be able to use previewer in VS without this one).
  • Skia backend (you won't be able to run on .NET Core without this one) needs Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable installed. If you want a self-contained deployment, you need to ship C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\redist\<arch>\Microsoft.VC140.CRT\msvcp140.dll and ..\vcruntime140.dll, see more info here.

Linux

  • You need Mono 5.0+ or .NET Core 1.1+
  • GTK3 has to be installed in the system or be available from LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
  • Skia backend is built against glibc 2.13. If your distro ships with older one or uses something else instead, you need to build your own libSkiaSharp.so - https://github.com/mono/SkiaSharp . We provide a precompiled binary only for x64 arch, arm is planned.

TL;DR: Use .NET Core and something mainstream like ubuntu and it will work just fine. On Debian/Ubuntu install mono-complete from deb http://download.mono-project.com/repo/debian alpha-wheezy main if you want to target full .NET

OS X

  • You need Mono 5.0+ or .NET Core 1.1+
  • You need to install gtk+3 from brew (this dependency is planned to be removed later)
brew update
brew install gtk+3

Building for full .NET on Linux/OS X

More info

OS X

export FrameworkPathOverride=/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/5.0.0/lib/mono/4.5/ before running dotnet build

iOS/Android

Those are experimental, but you don't need anything specific. It should work with Xamarin tooling out of the box.

Debian/Ubuntu

export FrameworkPathOverride=/usr/lib/mono/4.5/ before running dotnet build

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