Building and Editing Plugins in Linux

[technogeeky]

Hello folks.

I would like to experiment with changes to one somewhat popular module (SCANsat), and I want to peek inside another (MechJeb). But I'm on Linux, and I don't really know anything about Unity/Mono.

I'm aware of this repository (ksp-devtools) which I guessed would help me, but the instructions there to build Mono and/or the profiler did not work for me.

When I tried to build mono with the given command, I got:

not rmtree-ing /home/<username>/ksp_develop/ksp-devtools/mono/builds, as we're not on a buildmachine

ARE YOU SURE YOU DONT WANT TO MAKE A DEBUG BUILD?!?!?!!!!!

I'm not even sure if I want to build mono, anyway.

What do I need to do/install to be able to build the SCANsat module myself so I can play around with it? Do I need Unity? Do I need mono? Both? Do I need any specific PPAs to get the appropriate versions? I'm on Ubuntu 12.04 if that matters.

Thanks!

[agises]

Tecnically you only need a text editor and the mono compiler, mono-complete is the package you are looking for.

Salud.

[technogeeky]

Tecnically you only need a text editor and the mono compiler, mono-complete is the package you are looking for.

Salud.

Thanks. I suspected that was the package I needed. Then I saw that the version of mono provided by mono-complete is very old. Then, after you mentioned it, I noticed that the PPA I added (monoxide) secretly provides an updated version of mono-complete.

Hopefully it will all work out. I'll re-post here if I get stuck again.

Thanks!

[stupid_chris]

You might want to actually use an actual IDE. I believe Monodevelop works just fine for Linux