Is Visual Studio a requirement to build Godot Mono version?

Janders

Up until now I had my Godot working with Visual Studio Code but in the new Alpha 5 I read it is needed Nuget and MSbuild for the Mono version, that for my understanding is only available trough Visual Studio.

So my question is if Visual Studio is now a requirement for the mono version, and how do I run Godot mono on Ubuntu?

kryzmak

Tested it on Debian and works fine. Installed packages for MSbuild is mono-xbuild (version 4.6.2.7).

Curiously I have no packages regarding NuGet installed but it seems to work generally. As far as I understand, NuGet is a package manager and maybe Godot will throw an error, if I try to create some executables (just guessing). But there are packages for NuGet on Debian (and therefore as well on Ubuntu): Executable == nuget and the library == libnuget-core-cil.

Janders

Tank you for testing, I'm now more concerned about Windows tho, since it seems it is a requirement Visual Studio 2017

Calinou

You should be able to use NuGet and MSBuild from the Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017 (click on the "Tools for Visual Studio 2017" accordion). These do not include the Visual Studio IDE, making the installation smaller.