FlaME -- The Warzone 2100 Map Editor

[macuser]

The Mono version is simply a modified version of the original flame. It is modified to be able to run under Linux or Mac. It will actually run slower due to the fact that mono runs under emulation.

to run it type at the command line: "mono -debug /path/to/flame.exe"

end hit enter.

of course it will only run if you actually have mono installed

[effigy]

T...
It will actually run slower due to the fact that mono runs under emulation.
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Are you sure about mono being an emulator?

[ODDity]

I wonder if there is, or could be, a beginner friendly, "how to get FlaME working under linux" guide.

like a sticky

[NoQ]

ODDity: install mono, install visual basic support for mono, download FlaME, start it with "mono FlaME.exe". If nothing works, update your mono version to 2.10. If nothing works, post your backtrace.

upd: typo fixed

[macuser]

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It will actually run slower due to the fact that mono runs under emulation.
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Are you sure about mono being an emulator?

MONO runs as a .net framework for unix systems. There are several types of GUI interfaces MONO can handle.

1. GTK ui + vb.net code
2. Windows.forms ui + vb.net code
etc

Running a windows.forms ui IS under emulation.

[NoQ]

macuser: what do you mean by emulation? even Wine Is Not Emulation, right?

[macuser]

I mean: it is slow, uses windows dlls, and sometimes does not function correctly.

In other words it is "emulating" or trying to act in the same manner as a real windows.forms parser should.

[HarryHighDef]

I am having some trouble with flame as is starts up. It says it has stopped working and closes the program help!

[NoQ]

Post the backtrace.

[ODDity]

ODDity: install mono, install visual basic support for mono, download FlaME, start it with "FlaME mono.exe". If nothing works, update your mono version to 2.10. If nothing works, post your backtrace.

I'm assuming you meant start it with "mono FlaME.exe"

I also have installed libmono-microsoft-visualbasic8.0-cil, mono-vbnc, basically anything with visual basic in the descriptor that looked mono related.

It's a no go, which is why I asked for a beginners guide to getting the right packages installed.

Updating to mono 2.10 on current (stable) version of linux mint11 or ubuntu 11.04 does not look trivial and the mono site says it will not be backported because it breaks various things. Which means basically any linux users required to run mono 2.10 at the moment would have to jump through many hoops to get that working as far as I can see, unless they fancy running some pre-alpha release of ubuntu 11.10 or so.


Despite my best efforts to install the required packages I get

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ollie@boxen ~/Desktop/flame/FlaME $ mono FlaME.exe
WARNING: The runtime version supported by this application is unavailable.
Using default runtime: v1.1.4322

** (FlaME.exe:21940): WARNING **: The following assembly referenced from /home/ollie/Desktop/flame/FlaME/FlaME.exe could not be loaded:
     Assembly:   Microsoft.VisualBasic    (assemblyref_index=1)
     Version:    10.0.0.0
     Public Key: b03f5f7f11d50a3a
The assembly was not found in the Global Assembly Cache, a path listed in the MONO_PATH environment variable, or in the location of the executing assembly (/home/ollie/Desktop/flame/FlaME/).


** (FlaME.exe:21940): WARNING **: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualBasic, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies.
The entry point method could not be loaded

Perhaps there is something simple I missed.

Thank you kindly.

[macuser]

It is not your fault.

Which flaME version did you use?

[ODDity]

I've tried

flaMev1-19mono
FlaMEv1-20mono
FlaMEv1-21mono

I notice that they all do say they're for mono version 2.10 and simply I dont have that mono version, I suspect that is more than likely the problem.

Until mono 2.10 is in the repositories for me then I guess I'll have to leave it, looking at the Mono site installing the whole thing from source looks messy and I'm not experienced at all with such things.

[Flail13]

Would it work for you if it was for Mono 2.6.7?

[NoQ]

I'm assuming you meant start it with "mono FlaME.exe"

Sure typo

libmono-microsoft-visualbasic8.0-cil

I think you need 10.0 instead of 8.0. Try looking for a package with 10.0. Does installing this package manually (via dpkg) work for you?

[ODDity]

Would it work for you if it was for Mono 2.6.7?

that is the version of Mono I, and I suspect all other Linux users not using unstable or compiling mono themselves have yeah, it would be worth a go and if you can make that happen cool beans

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mono --version
Mono JIT compiler version 2.6.7 (Debian 2.6.7-5ubuntu3)
Copyright (C) 2002-2010 Novell, Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
	TLS:           __thread
	GC:            Included Boehm (with typed GC and Parallel Mark)
	SIGSEGV:       altstack
	Notifications: epoll
	Architecture:  amd64
	Disabled:      none

Edit: whether it work "work" or no.. i can't say.. I've not played with mono at all in the past and I know next to nothing about coding. What I would like is to be able to make maps for warzone on linux!