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Multi-target .NET Framework 4.8 and .NET 8 #3745

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@Morilli Morilli commented Aug 17, 2023

This is a proof-of-concept PR multi-targeting both .NET Framework and .NET 8.
.NET 5+ has lots of performance improvements that could immediately benefit us (e.g. #3675).
.NET 5+ does not support WinForms under linux, which means that the .NET Framework version can be used under linux and windows, while the .NET 5+ build is windows-only.

This is still very much at POC level as there will most likely be unexpected issues like differing APIs, dialogs being visually broken etc. Also, no script and command is currently aware of the output folder change: output/[everything] -> output/net4.8/[everything_net4.8]+output/net8.0-windows/[everything_net8.0].

Known issues:

  • On net8.0-windows, some waterbox cores (just bsnes?) hardcrash on the first frameadvance. No amount of debug compilation has helped so far, but compiling the waterboxhost with dirty detection disabled fixes this. I'm afraid this may be MAME rom loading regression #3615 all over again.

<PropertyGroup>
<UseWindowsForms>true</UseWindowsForms>
<EnableWindowsTargeting>true</EnableWindowsTargeting>
</PropertyGroup>
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This will break compilation on Linux, you'll need to do it conditionally

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I've specifically set EnableWindowsTargeting to fix compilation on linux. What compilation problems are you seeing? It compiles fine for me.

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I haven't tried. I recall from last time I messed with hammer-and-duct-tape that <UseWindowsForms/> didn't work w/ the net48 TFM, and multi-targeting net6.0-windows prevented building on Linux—<EnableWindowsTargeting/> has obviously been added to fix that, but does it also fix the WinForms references?

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Well the net4.8 variant runs fine for me in WSL, so I assume everything is good on that front.
From the tests I've done it seemed that the System.Windows.Forms reference is functionally equivalent to setting UseWindowsForms.

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From the docs:

When building on a non-Windows platform, the output may not be the same as when building on Windows. In particular, the executable is not marked as a Windows application (which means that it will always launch a console window) and won't have an icon embedded.

CI is Linux so this is a problem.

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From my testing, the .net48 executable looks correct, so this is presumably only an issue for the .NET(6+) version. I suppose the solution would be to build on windows then?

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@YoshiRulz YoshiRulz changed the title Multi-target .NET Framework 4.8 and .NET 6 Multi-target .NET Framework 4.8 and .NET 8 Feb 14, 2024
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<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
<PropertyGroup>
<TargetFramework>netstandard2.0</TargetFramework>
<TargetFrameworks>netstandard2.0;net8.0</TargetFrameworks>
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Just mentioning that this in only necessary because we have BCL backports which get included in the netstandard2.0 assemblies and are invoked as extensions from EmuHawk. All the other libs can target netstandard2.0 only and the build succeeds.

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