How soon is Linux support coming for the engine? We’re deciding between Xenko and other options, and Linux is key. We liked Xenko a lot, and we’re willing to start working on our title until Linux support comes, but we want to know if this is just a feature suggestion or a real part of your roadmap.
Its a wish list item.
So, it’s not part of the roadmap. Just a feature suggestion. That’s what i was asking.
Can’t it be used with Mono?
Hi gaya,
On our road to porting Xenko runtime to CoreCLR/CoreRT and Android/iOS (+ support for SDL2), we are actually starting to port to Linux in order to ease this transition. The port to Linux may not get some feature bits right at first (like gamepads) but it should be feasible to get it almost fully functional soon after.
Regarding the editor, it is currently developed using WPF, so the porting story is a bit more tricky, so we don’t have a plan for medium term
Regarding the editor, it is currently developed using WPF, so the porting story is a bit more tricky, so we don’t have a plan for medium term
I’m not sure if this helps, but in case it does, these guys (NoesisGUI) have been working on porting WPF to many different platforms.
It is not WPF but rather a custom UI for games that uses XAML as a describing language. There are other XAML-based projects, on GitHub for some of them. But none of them are complete (not enough features for an editor) or stable (lot of breaking changes between version).
For example:
- OmniXaml (https://github.com/SuperJMN/OmniXAML)
- Perspex (https://github.com/Perspex/Perspex)
- Empty Keys (http://emptykeys.com)
Any news on this? 
Hi gaya,
We are planning of having Xenko run on Linux and Mac for mid 2016.
Concerning the editor, we currently don’t have any plans for 2016.
Hi,
i have got a project which will involve 3d on linux so i was wondering if the linux support is still on track? I am trying to decide if i am going to use Xenko or Wave.
Regards,
Per
Hi percramer,
Thank you for your interest in Xenko.
Linux support is on track and should be released very soon (~2 weeks).
Best,
Wow, that sounds great! I have some other questions, but i will put them in a different topic because it is a bit more general.
Regards,
Per
Is this now possible with the new 1.9 version?
Linux support as runtime is available since version 1.7-beta. See also the documentation Xenko On Linux.
No Linux version of the editor for the moment.