Fedora 39 : testing Godot on Laptop and VirtualBox.

Today I watched a bit of the video series on the YouTube channel Fedora.

It's a whole team that maintains the Fedora packages and their development. I thought to check if I have the possibility to effectively use it in the development of software on Linux that has multiple functionalities. And because I currently work on Windows with Godot version 4.1.1 and C#, I took the first steps for installation and testing.

Let's install the Godot game engine tool on Fedora Distro Linux.

$ sudo su 
# dnf5 search godot
# dnf5 install godot.x86_64
# exit

Let's open and test with this command:

$ godot

The Godot interface comes with version 4.0.3 and is functional on my laptop with Fedora. Obviously, I have not tested all the implemented functionalities, but they seem to be good and ready to work.

On the other hand, testing on Virtualbox, it seems that it can't start the Godot interface.

It seems that Godot depends on OpenGL and needs some minimum requirements to work properly starting with OpenGL version 3.3.

Fedora 28 : Godot example with linux .

Today I tested a simple example with the game engine named Godot version 3.0.6.
It was created on a Windows 8.1 operating system and exported as a linux application.
I moved the two files to the Fedora 28 operating system.

[mythcat@desk Godot_test_001]$ ll
total 41752
-rw-rw-r--. 1 mythcat mythcat    41092 Aug  2 18:34 Godot_test_001.pck
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 mythcat mythcat 42707653 Aug  2 18:34 Godot_test_001.x86_64
[mythcat@desk Godot_test_001]$ ./Godot_test_001.x86_64 
OpenGL ES 3.0 Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ivybridge Desktop 
Mono: Initializing module...
The assembly mscorlib.dll was not found or could not be loaded.
It should have been installed in the `/usr/lib/mono/4.5/mscorlib.dll' directory.

The error occurred from the mono package and I fixed it with the installation using the dnf tool.

[root@desk mythcat]# dnf install mono-core.x86_64
Last metadata expiration check: 1:22:05 ago on Thu 02 Aug 2018 05:30:05 PM EEST.
Dependencies resolved.

...
Installed:
  mono-core.x86_64 4.8.0-14.fc28                 libgdiplus.x86_64 5.6-1.fc28                     
  mono-data.x86_64 4.8.0-14.fc28                 mono-data-sqlite.x86_64 4.8.0-14.fc28            
  mono-extras.x86_64 4.8.0-14.fc28               mono-mvc.x86_64 4.8.0-14.fc28                    
  mono-wcf.x86_64 4.8.0-14.fc28                  mono-web.x86_64 4.8.0-14.fc28                    
  mono-winforms.x86_64 4.8.0-14.fc28            

Complete!

Here's the final result:

[mythcat@desk Godot_test_001]$ ./Godot_test_001.x86_64 
OpenGL ES 3.0 Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ivybridge Desktop 
Mono: Initializing module...
Mono: Runtime initialized
Mono: INITIALIZED

Fedora 28 : Godot game engine.

Today I tested the new version of Godot game engine - version 3.0.3 .
You can download it from official webpage.
I used the 64 bit version.
After download and unzip you can run the binary file in your user terminal.
The Godot game engine start with a GUI.
Into the right area of screen into Scene tab two objects: Spatial and Camera.
You need to select or add a WoldEnvironment node.
Take a look to the Inspector and use with New Environment .
Run this with the play icon.
If is all right you can see something like this:

Create e new folder into your project and name it Export.
Copy the mscorelib.dll into this folder.
Go to main menu and select Project - Export and you will see this GUI for export your game.
Press Add button to select Linux/X11 output:
Select Linux and press Export Project button.
Go to Export folder and run from your linux terminal your game.
This game engine working well with Fedora 28 and the export running without errors.