Can I use my Linux system libmono.so?

[fommil]

This would get lost in the monolithic Linux discussion thread, and is probably not interesting to most players, so starting a fresh thread.

I have mono-develop 3.10.0 installed on my Debian Jessie machines and I'd really like to use that to run KSP instead of the bundled libmono that it comes with. Simply moving aside the libmono.so and putting in a symbolic link to my system libmono-2.0.so results in lots of missing symbols, so obviously libmono.so is different to my system libmono-2.0.so (possibly a different version, or combo build of multiple lib files?).

Has anyone had any luck using their system installed mono to run KSP?

Does anyone know which flavour of Linux KSP is built on, and which version of mono is used?

[steve_v]

Nope, Unity uses a heavily modified mono fork.

You can however compile said fork yourself.

[fommil]

Nope, Unity uses a heavily modified mono fork.

You can however compile said fork yourself.

Thanks! Just what I needed :-)

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I got sooooo close to getting this to work. I managed to get quite a lot of the Unity fork of unity compiled, but then it needed a pre 2.6 version of mcs (mono c# compiler) to finish the compilation and it is pretty impossible to find anything that old for modern versions of linux (e.g. I have 3.10 from xamarin, and jessie rolls 3.2 or something like that). If anyone knows of a binary build of mcs 2.6 that runs on jessie, please let me know.

[Bolche]

I got sooooo close to getting this to work. I managed to get quite a lot of the Unity fork of unity compiled, but then it needed a pre 2.6 version of mcs (mono c# compiler) to finish the compilation and it is pretty impossible to find anything that old for modern versions of linux (e.g. I have 3.10 from xamarin, and jessie rolls 3.2 or something like that). If anyone knows of a binary build of mcs 2.6 that runs on jessie, please let me know.

The usual way to solve this is to install an older distro in a chroot, with deboostrap, or LXC and compile there. It's pretty lightweight.

But I'm curious. What are you hoping to accomplish with this? If libmono was vanilla, I would like to use my system's too, but since it is not, whats the use of not using Unity's?