Linux - Does not run with Mono - DllNotFoundException

[bitrot-alpha]

I'm guessing something's wrong with Fedora and Mono, because I was able to run MemcardRex in OpenSUSE last I checked.

I followed the instructions on mono-project.com to install the latest stable Mono per MONO.md

[arashi@control-bureau MemcardRex 1.9.cd98032]$ mono --version
Mono JIT compiler version 6.12.0.107 (tarball Wed Dec  9 21:44:58 UTC 2020)
Copyright (C) 2002-2014 Novell, Inc, Xamarin Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
	TLS:           __thread
	SIGSEGV:       altstack
	Notifications: epoll
	Architecture:  amd64
	Disabled:      none
	Misc:          softdebug 
	Interpreter:   yes
	LLVM:          yes(610)
	Suspend:       hybrid
	GC:            sgen (concurrent by default)

When running mono MemcardRex.exe with the latest release, I get this error log:

[arashi@control-bureau MemcardRex 1.9.cd98032]$ mono MemcardRex.exe
Gtk-Message: 01:07:33.511: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module"
System.DllNotFoundException: dwmapi.dll assembly:<unknown assembly> type:<unknown type> member:(null)
  at (wrapper managed-to-native) MemcardRex.glassSupport.DwmIsCompositionEnabled(bool&)
  at MemcardRex.glassSupport.isGlassSupported () [0x00026] in <51d023b1534a4ef9bc3b0d1191357c9c>:0 
  at MemcardRex.mainWindow.applyGlass () [0x00030] in <51d023b1534a4ef9bc3b0d1191357c9c>:0 
  at MemcardRex.mainWindow.applySettings () [0x00034] in <51d023b1534a4ef9bc3b0d1191357c9c>:0 
  at MemcardRex.mainWindow.loadProgramSettings () [0x001f1] in <51d023b1534a4ef9bc3b0d1191357c9c>:0 
  at MemcardRex.mainWindow.Form1_Load (System.Object sender, System.EventArgs e) [0x0009c] in <51d023b1534a4ef9bc3b0d1191357c9c>:0 
  at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoad (System.EventArgs e) [0x0001f] in <eaa3af9f3e15467aba111734e9f9f2f7>:0 
  at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoadInternal (System.EventArgs e) [0x00023] in <eaa3af9f3e15467aba111734e9f9f2f7>:0 

Running mono in debug mode and redirecting terminal output with MONO_LOG_LEVEL=debug mono MemcardRex.exe > log.txt I get this text file:
log.txt

After installing the gtk2-engines package, putting /usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/modules/ and /usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/modules/ into a file at /etc/ld.so.conf.d/, and running ldconfig:

[arashi@control-bureau MemcardRex 1.9.cd98032]$ mono MemcardRex.exe
System.DllNotFoundException: dwmapi.dll assembly:<unknown assembly> type:<unknown type> member:(null)
  at (wrapper managed-to-native) MemcardRex.glassSupport.DwmIsCompositionEnabled(bool&)
  at MemcardRex.glassSupport.isGlassSupported () [0x00026] in <51d023b1534a4ef9bc3b0d1191357c9c>:0 
  at MemcardRex.mainWindow.applyGlass () [0x00030] in <51d023b1534a4ef9bc3b0d1191357c9c>:0 
  at MemcardRex.mainWindow.applySettings () [0x00034] in <51d023b1534a4ef9bc3b0d1191357c9c>:0 
  at MemcardRex.mainWindow.loadProgramSettings () [0x001f1] in <51d023b1534a4ef9bc3b0d1191357c9c>:0 
  at MemcardRex.mainWindow.Form1_Load (System.Object sender, System.EventArgs e) [0x0009c] in <51d023b1534a4ef9bc3b0d1191357c9c>:0 
  at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoad (System.EventArgs e) [0x0001f] in <eaa3af9f3e15467aba111734e9f9f2f7>:0 
  at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoadInternal (System.EventArgs e) [0x00023] in <eaa3af9f3e15467aba111734e9f9f2f7>:0

As I understand it, dwmapi.dll should be provided by Mono. What's going on?
Thanks.

[bitrot-alpha]

Update - just tried running MemcardRex on my OpenSUSE Tumbleweed machine and it doesn't work on there either

[ShendoXT]

Hm... I think it's only needed for the transparent glass effect on win Vista/7.
Check out this file: https://github.com/ShendoXT/memcardrex/blob/master/MemcardRex/Extras/glassSupport.cs

Maybe it's time to finally get on without it, doesn't look good on modern Windows and is disabled anyway for 10/11...

[ShendoXT]

Check out the c391282, I've removed glass altogether and made a binary release while I'm at it.

[bitrot-alpha]

RIP Windows Aero.

Both binary release and building from source run on Linux just fine now!