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Trizbort

Trizbort is a simple tool used to create maps for interactive fiction.

Please use the primary repo instead of this one if you're looking for the current version of Trizbort.

Linux Mono

This fork is my attempt to make Trizbort compile and run more reliably on Linux. I'm new to C# & Mono, but I'm hoping to muddle through sufficiently to get it working, which mostly seems to be figuring out why the text isn't displaying in the main window and removing some Windows specific features that throw exceptions or otherwise behave poorly.

I've enabled issues on this repo to give us a place where we can discuss any outstanding bugs specifically related to the initial port and testing of the Linux (and MacOS?) version. I'll probably use it to track defects that I haven't been able to fix yet there as well. I encourage anyone who tests this build to report any problems that are present on Linux that are NOT present in Windows here as well. Problems present in Windows that are not related to Mono/Linux/MacOS should be reported in the primary repo. I'll disable the issues again once we've resolved all of the known issues.

My build procedure

Not being familar with Mono builds, and seeing a lot of conflicting information on the Internet, I lacked clear guidance on how to build Trizbort. This is what I eventually figured out and it completes with a "successful" build, although I've hack

First get a sufficiently up-to-date version of Mono. I'm running Ubunutu 20.10, and the default version seemed to be too old to work, because nuget complained that it needed version 2.12. The xbuild command also said to run msbuild instead, but there was no msbuild command. These commands resulted in bunch of new mono packages for me:

$ sudo apt install gnupg ca-certificates
$ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 \
  --recv-keys 3FA7E0328081BFF6A14DA29AA6A19B38D3D831EF
$ echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.mono-project.com/repo/ubuntu stable-focal main" \
  | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-official-stable.list
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt upgrade

Then clone the repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/cfcohen/trizbort Trizbort
$ cd Trizbort
$ git checkout linux

Install the required packages using the new version of nuget:

$ mkdir packages
$ cd packages
$ nuget install CommandLineParser -Version 2.6.0
$ nuget install Newtonsoft.Json -Version 12.0.2
$ nuget install PDFsharp-gdi -Version 1.50.5147
$ nuget install NUnit -Version 3.12
$ nuget install NUnit3TestAdapter -Version 3.17.0
$ nuget install Shouldly -Version 3.0.2.0

Build once to create the obj/x86/Debug directory:

$ cd ..
$ msbuild

This is the best hack I've found so far to cause the buld to run to completion.

$ touch obj/x86/Debug/Trizbort.exe.manifest
$ touch obj/x86/Debug/Trizbort.application
$ msbuild

I'm not sure why there's not a Trizbort.exe.manifest or Trizbort.application in the upstream repo. The msbuild command seems to require them, but obviously Jason seems to be building fine without them in Windows. If anyone knows why these are required under Linux and what to do about them, please let me know.

Finally, you should be able to run Trizbort with:

$ mono ./bin/Debug/Trizbort.exe