Building Windows Client in linux container #486
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Has anyone built the Windows client successfully on a linux machine (or container)? I am new to .NET, but am having a lot of trouble getting a build going via |
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The issue may be due to using .NET 8 instead of .NET Framework 4, which the GHOSTS project relies on. While I haven't built the Windows client on Linux, I have successfully run it as a DLL configured as a system service. You may need to explore compatibility options for building .NET Framework applications in a Linux environment. I've also updated the documentation to assist with Linux deployments: GHOSTS Linux Installation Guide. |
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I concur, based on my research, .NET versions < 5 isn't supported on linux. There is a github action for this project that successfully builds the linux client, so that works, I think its just building windows on linux with .NET 4 that is not feasible. |
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I have always had cross-platform compile issues as well, and have not really dug into them because it was just easier/faster to do that build on a Windows VM. At the time, I chose .NET Framework because dotnetcore was fairly new, people wanted to run Ghosts on older machines, like Win7, and I wanted access to some Windows APIs. I think it is probably the time to start thinking about moving to a full modern .NET version of the client, which would condense a lot of code within the project and make it more manageable going forward. |
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Good to know its not just me. I understand the choice of the (now legacy) .NET Framework. If you do work on updating the version I would be excited but probably can't help too much. |
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Good news is windows provide tools to automate the move from 4 .NET to dotnetcore 8 with relative ease. |
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I am afraid we will have some issues with the lower level Windows API calls. It could easily be the case that we no longer need them as well. |
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I have always had cross-platform compile issues as well, and have not really dug into them because it was just easier/faster to do that build on a Windows VM.
At the time, I chose .NET Framework because dotnetcore was fairly new, people wanted to run Ghosts on older machines, like Win7, and I wanted access to some Windows APIs. I think it is probably the time to start thinking about moving to a full modern .NET version of the client, which would condense a lot of code within the project and make it more manageable going forward.