documentation: Ubunutu Installation problems

[bakuzen]

I am attempting to install this on Ubuntu 16.04.

After cloning psi, installing .NET core and VS Code, I tried to run build.sh but there was a missing ilasm binary necessary for building.

I tried this: https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/Documentation/building/linux-instructions.md which, after compilation, generates the ilasm binary, but if I try to run it by pointing my PATH env var to it, I get segfaults.

(This is Casey Kennington, btw)

[AshleyF]

Hi Casey,

Although \psi is built on .NET Standard, we do still depend on the ilasm tool from Mono. This is missing from our setup docs. I'll add this.

Please try installing the latest Mono and using that version of ilasm.

[bakuzen]

Hi AshleyF,

That worked for me (at least, ./build.sh processed successfully). I tried mono before, but it threw some errors. Following the link you provided apparently there was a more up-to-date mono version that did work.

[AshleyF]

Good to hear. I added this to the build instructions.
Thanks for reporting this!

[bakuzen]

Hi again,

I was able to get the Bing ASR example working, but not without some effort. This feedback might be useful:

• after cloning psi, installing .NET core and VS Code, I tried to run build.sh but there was a missing ilasm executable
• the latest version of mono devel's ilasm works: https://www.mono-project.com/download/stable/#download-lin
• I needed to install scriptcs https://www.strathweb.com/2015/11/running-c-scripts-and-snippets-in-visual-studio-code-with-scriptcs/
• the trick is to use dotnet in the console in a folder while coding in the VS Code editor https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/other/dotnet
• In the end, I didn't use the code, I used the nuget packages. Adding nuget packages: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40675162/install-a-nuget-package-in-visual-studio-code
• I needed to set the following in the .csproj file:

<PropertyGroup>
    <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.0</TargetFramework>
    <RuntimeIdentifier>ubuntu.16.04-x64</RuntimeIdentifier>
  </PropertyGroup>

before getting all of the Linux-ready nuget packages for psi: https://microsoft.github.io/psi/NuGetPackagesList