Port to .Net core

[tidusjar]

Let's all face it, anyone running on anything but windows usually runs into issues at some point.

Let's port this over to .Net core and remove the dependency from Mono.

[vertigo235]

So is it not planned yet or in progress? I'm confused

[tidusjar]

It's in progress but a backburner, only working on it when I have time.

This will take a while to port everything over, since the frameworks are different, Core API is different from the Full Framework too and there are many dependencies that we use are not supported on .Net Core yet.

[yeyeoke]

Wow, truly great news, I'm running Ombi on Ubuntu Server 16.10 and I've been experiencing that Ombi becomes unresponsive and only comes online again after I restart it, I figured it was due to mono.

[tidusjar]

Yeah, we have few issues from the limitations of mono. It's an excellent framework but it does have its caviats!

This has been put on hold for the time being as I am waiting for .Net core to mature a bit as there are still problems with the tooling and it's still very much influx.

[RyanAStrouse]

Excellent news! Thanks!

[Magikarplvl4]

@tidusjar just started with this. it will take a while but i think the linux users will be happy 👍

[smasher816]

I'm not sure if this is an issue with Ombi, or my dotnet install. I'm using Arch Linux with the dotnet-runtime-2.0 package (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dotnet-runtime-2.0/).

$ chmod +x Ombi; ./Ombi

Error:
  An assembly specified in the application dependencies manifest (Ombi.deps.json) was not found:
    package: 'runtime.linux-x64.Microsoft.NETCore.App', version: '2.0.0'
    path: 'runtimes/linux-x64/native/System.Native.a'

I have also tried running /usr/bin/dotnet ./Ombi.dll which gives the same error.

[tidusjar]

Are you trying to run from source?

[smasher816]

This was from the linux.tar.gz appveyor build artifact this morning (https://ci.appveyor.com/api/buildjobs/43vlt3g81ahfc684/artifacts/linux.tar.gz I believe)

[tidusjar]

You do not need to install the .net runtime. It's a self contained application meaning it should have all the dependencies inside the .gz.

Make sure your working directory is where you extracted Ombi and then run .\Ombi

[smasher816]

Thank you for the info. I've narrowed down my issue to when using a PKGBUILD in arch. If I simply download and extract the tar.gz then it does in fact run correctly.

Edit: After a little more poking it is because makepkg strips static libs (.a) files by default. Disabling that option fixes everything.
Edit 2: Here's the package if anyone else wants it. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ombi-beta/

[horstepipe]

is there a guide on how to install the .net version on Ubuntu?

[Magikarplvl4]

@horstepipe see the main page of this github