[MacOS / Standalone / Non-VS version] MGCB Editor doesn’t open.

[0rangeFox]

Hey folks 👋, I’m in college and my teacher is lecturing with this tool “MonoGame”, but I personally don’t use VS but instead I use Rider. And I am having no success in running the MGCB Editor in a “standalone” version.

I followed the instructions, through the first step and then the last step which was to install the editor.

My dotnet info:

Sokoban % dotnet --info      
.NET SDK (reflecting any global.json):
 Version:   6.0.108
 Commit:    4e3a463d2b

Runtime Environment:
 OS Name:     Mac OS X
 OS Version:  13.2
 OS Platform: Darwin
 RID:         osx-arm64
 Base Path:   /usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk/6.0.108/

global.json file:
  Not found

Host:
  Version:      6.0.14
  Architecture: arm64
  Commit:       2a90daa2cc

.NET SDKs installed:
  6.0.108 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk]

.NET runtimes installed:
  Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.8 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.8 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.14 [/usr/local/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]

Download .NET:
  https://aka.ms/dotnet-download

Learn about .NET Runtimes and SDKs:
  https://aka.ms/dotnet/runtimes-sdk-info

Project dotnet tool list:

Sokoban % dotnet tool list   
Package Id              Version        Commands         Manifest                                                         
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
dotnet-mgcb             3.8.1.303      mgcb             /Users/0rangefox/Projects/Rider/Sokoban/.config/dotnet-tools.json
dotnet-mgcb-editor      3.8.1.303      mgcb-editor      /Users/0rangefox/Projects/Rider/Sokoban/.config/dotnet-tools.json

If I run the command “dotnet mgcb-editor” it gives the following error:

Sokoban % dotnet mgcb-editor
Could not execute because the specified command or file was not found.
Possible reasons for this include:
  * You misspelled a built-in dotnet command.
  * You intended to execute a .NET program, but dotnet-mgcb-editor-mac does not exist.
  * You intended to run a global tool, but a dotnet-prefixed executable with this name could not be found on the PATH.

But when I do the following command “dotnet tool install dotnet-mgcb-editor-mac”, it stops giving more errors, but it doesn’t open the program either. Even in the folder the Mac recognizes which program to use, but it happens exactly the same when I run it through the command which is, it opens and closes instantly, in the dock it doesn’t even show the icon but does a spacing and goes back to the original.

I forgot to mention, but I downloaded the dotnet SDK via brew on the following tap and it is version, “dotnet-sdk6-0-100”.

Copy & Paste from this MonoGame Community Post.

[0rangeFox]

Recently I saw there's a new update of dotnet 6 (6.0.407) from the tap which I mentioned. I just updated everything and the problem still persist. Tried another way to check if it would be fixed, I just downloaded the libraries as global doing the following commands:

dotnet tool install -g dotnet-mgcb-editor
dotnet tool install -g dotnet-mgcb-editor-mac

And I made what brew asked for:

Tools directory '/Users/0rangefox/.dotnet/tools' is not currently on the PATH environment variable.
If you are using zsh, you can add it to your profile by running the following command:

cat << \EOF >> ~/.zprofile
# Add .NET Core SDK tools
export PATH="$PATH:/Users/0rangefox/.dotnet/tools"
EOF

And run `zsh -l` to make it available for current session.

You can only add it to the current session by running the following command:

export PATH="$PATH:/Users/0rangefox/.dotnet/tools"

You can invoke the tool using the following command: mgcb-editor-mac
Tool 'dotnet-mgcb-editor-mac' (version '3.8.1.303') was successfully installed.

Still doesn't work. Any advice to fix this?

[wazawoo]

Are you on an M1/M2?

[0rangeFox]

Are you on an M1/M2?

Oh ya, I forgot to mention that, yes I'm on M series.

[AristurtleDev]

Are you on an M1/M2?

Oh ya, I forgot to mention that, yes I'm on M series.

Quoting official documentation

However, it is not yet possible to use the MGCB or the MGCB Editor on Apple M1 silicon, unless you are running the osx-x64 variant of the .NET SDK (and therefore using Rosetta emulation). We are working toward resolving this inconvenience.

Reference: https://docs.monogame.net/articles/whats_new.html#apple-m1-silicon-support

With that said, and I offer no guarentee since you're on an M series Mac, but I noticed above you installed the tool as global using the -g flag. Starting with MonoGame 3.8.1, the tool should not be installed as a global tool. I've posted more information about this here. https://community.monogame.net/t/cant-open-mgcb-editor/17935/7?u=aristurtle

Again, though, I don't know if it will resolve your issue since you're on an M series Mac

Additionally, this users in another issue seems to have got it working, which might give you a start: #7960 (comment)

[0rangeFox]

It's been a long time and the classes where I had to use this tool are already finished. But thanks anyway for your help @AristurtleDev.

[AristurtleDev]

It's been a long time and the classes where I had to use this tool are already finished. But thanks anyway for your help @AristurtleDev.

Np, hopefully you were able to get some solution working for the class while it was in session.