How to run / develop this project

[squarism]

For anyone curious (on a mac):

Run:

$ brew install mono (if you don't have it)
WaveFunctionCollapse $ mcs -pkg:dotnet /reference:System.Drawing.dll *.cs
WaveFunctionCollapse $ mono Main.exe

(it starts working your CPU)

🌻

[Rubonnek]

In Arch Linux the same command works. Only had to install mono:

# pacman -S mono
$ mcs -pkg:dotnet /reference:System.Drawing.dll *.cs

[ultrasam]

How can I run this on a PC?

[nilsding]

@ultrasam I lazied out and created a new C# project in Xamarin Studio (which is pretty much like Visual Studio) and added the C# files which where in the repo. Had to add references to System.Xml and System.Drawing before building.

[ultrasam]

When creating a new C# project in Visual Studio it gives me several options:
Windows Forms Application,
WPF Application
Console Application
Shared Project
Class Library

Which one should I pick??

[nilsding]

Use a Console Application and remove the Program1.cs file

[ultrasam]

I've got all this errors when I tried to build this, I am new at doing a project in Visual Studio 2015, sorry about that, but any help would be appreciated

[mwaltersva]

Right click References > Add, select System.Draw

[ultrasam]

Ok, perfect that worked it compiled with no errors, now how do I use the program??

[ultrasam]

Ok, I think I had two programs with the method main and that was causing problems, but now I fixed that and now I am getting the error shown here:

By the way the file samples.xml is there...

[dzoba]

After following @squarism 's directions I am getting

System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'System.Drawing.GDIPlus' threw an exception. ---> System.DllNotFoundException: libgdiplus.dylib
  at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Drawing.GDIPlus:GdiplusStartup (ulong&,System.Drawing.GdiplusStartupInput&,System.Drawing.GdiplusStartupOutput&)
  at System.Drawing.GDIPlus..cctor () [0x000cc] in <93576e487af246b9880ff86779ad60ff>:0
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
  at System.Drawing.Bitmap..ctor (System.String filename, System.Boolean useIcm) [0x0002b] in <93576e487af246b9880ff86779ad60ff>:0
  at System.Drawing.Bitmap..ctor (System.String filename) [0x00000] in <93576e487af246b9880ff86779ad60ff>:0
  at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) System.Drawing.Bitmap:.ctor (string)
  at OverlappingModel..ctor (System.String name, System.Int32 N, System.Int32 width, System.Int32 height, System.Boolean periodicInput, System.Boolean periodicOutput, System.Int32 symmetry, System.Int32 foundation) [0x00041] in <e8e8a4739e4b4f79b85af1dc0961b451>:0
  at Program.Main () [0x000c9] in <e8e8a4739e4b4f79b85af1dc0961b451>:0
[ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'System.Drawing.GDIPlus' threw an exception. ---> System.DllNotFoundException: libgdiplus.dylib
  at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Drawing.GDIPlus:GdiplusStartup (ulong&,System.Drawing.GdiplusStartupInput&,System.Drawing.GdiplusStartupOutput&)
  at System.Drawing.GDIPlus..cctor () [0x000cc] in <93576e487af246b9880ff86779ad60ff>:0
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
  at System.Drawing.Bitmap..ctor (System.String filename, System.Boolean useIcm) [0x0002b] in <93576e487af246b9880ff86779ad60ff>:0
  at System.Drawing.Bitmap..ctor (System.String filename) [0x00000] in <93576e487af246b9880ff86779ad60ff>:0
  at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) System.Drawing.Bitmap:.ctor (string)
  at OverlappingModel..ctor (System.String name, System.Int32 N, System.Int32 width, System.Int32 height, System.Boolean periodicInput, System.Boolean periodicOutput, System.Int32 symmetry, System.Int32 foundation) [0x00041] in <e8e8a4739e4b4f79b85af1dc0961b451>:0
  at Program.Main () [0x000c9] in <e8e8a4739e4b4f79b85af1dc0961b451>:0```

After googling I don't see a simple answer to that. Any one here encountered/solved it?

EDIT:

I was able to get it to do a bit more by following these commands in addition to what @squarism posted. Not sure if this is the best way, but it seems to be working.

1. brew cask install mono-mdk
2. open /usr/local/Caskroom/mono-mdk/4.6.1.3/MonoFramework-MDK-4.6.1.3.macos10.xamarin.universal.pkg
3. env PATH=/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Commands/:$PATH mcs -pkg:dotnet /reference:System.Drawing.dll *.cs
4. env PATH=/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Commands/:$PATH mono Main.exe

[kchapelier]

@ultrasam is the samples.xml files actually copied to the build directory ? If it isn't you could try copy pasting it there manually to confirm it fixes the issue you're having. I can't remember what was the setting to include a resource file in the build system of VS though...

EDIT: you will probably have the same issue with all the images

[ultrasam]

well the file is there and I included it in the project:

Here is my project's folder:

Do you see anything wrong there?

[ultrasam]

Ok I put the samples folder and samples.xml inside the bin/Debug/ folder and it worked!!!, it started creating a bunch of BMPs, now if I want to use my own designs, should I put them on the samples folder??

[kchapelier]

yes, and reference them in the samples.xml file and fiddle with the properties a bit

[TheDudeFromCI]

Is there a pre-compiled version of this? I am very new to C#, and have no idea how to compile or run it. >.>