Unofficialcrusaderpatch: Running the patch on MacOS with „Wine“

[iDjay]

Hey,

Thanks for your patch! I‘m using v. 1.4.1 from Gog on MacOS Mojave and it works fine with .exe launcher like Crossover, Wine or PortingKit. But for some reason I can‘t get your patch to launch. Is there a specific requirement to get it running?

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[Sh0wdown]

Sorry, I don't know what's stopping it. The program uses .NET 4.0 and WPF for the gui.
Compiling it with Mono also does not work.

[iDjay]

It launches after installing net 4.0 but the GUI is missing, where can I download WPF?
or do I need DirectX or something similar?

[Sh0wdown]

I don't know how or if it works on other OS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Presentation_Foundation

[iDjay]

Hmm okay I don‘t think I can get this to work. I will stick with the original crusader version, if anyone still has an idea, let me know! 😊

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[PodeCaradox]

You can change the Stronghold exe on any windows Pc or virtual machine with Windows and than copy it after patching. I think The Problem is WPF(Windows Presentation Foundation) is for Windows and is not coded to run on MacOs or linux. Maybe i can copy the hole Code from Sh0wdown and give you the programm in Avalonia(same as WPF but can run on all Platforms and is also coded in C# and XAML), that should run on MacOS and Linux

[iDjay]

@Gaaammmler that would be great but actually I‘m running Stronghold with Crossover which emulates all the necessary Windows files to open .exe files on MacOS. There‘s no native stronghold Mac version

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[funghetto]

I've been able to run the installer by installing with winetricks dotnet40.

[iDjay]

I've been able to run the installer by installing with winetricks dotnet40.

@funghetto can you explain me step by step how you did this please? :)

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[funghetto]

On the console
WINEPREFIX=location/of/your/prefix winetricks dotnet40
Start the installer

[iDjay]

On the console
WINEPREFIX=location/of/your/prefix winetricks dotnet40
Start the installer

need a more detailed guide, I'm not really into the technical stuff 🙈

[iDjay]

@funghetto I found "Winetricks" inside Wineskin and was able to run dotnet40 but it still doesn't work. More details will be appreciated :)

[funghetto]

I'm on linux and there is no wineskin but I expect it to work likewise on macos.
I can guide you through installing it from the terminal if you want.

[PodeCaradox]

Maybe we can add in the future release .net core support so it should run on linux and mac. But i need to do some research on that.