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Any success getting MonoDevelop to work with Unity 2018?

Discussion in 'Editor & General Support' started by alexchandel, May 8, 2018.

  1. alexchandel

    alexchandel

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    Visual Studio for Mac, after install, is a full 2.5 GB, compared to MonoDevelop's 310 MB. I don't want this bloat.

    Has anyone had success using MonoDevelop with 2018? Searching only yielded unsuccessful attempts with the 2018 beta.

    I can still build projects from Unity, but in MonoDevelop I have missing reference errors for most packages (e.g. UnityEditor.UI). Anyone know how to fix this?

    Note that reimporting assets didn't fix this.
     
    Last edited: May 8, 2018
  2. alexchandel

    alexchandel

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    Solved:

    Unity -> Preferences -> External Tools -> External Script Editor, then find and select MonoDevelop from the dialog. Then Assets -> Open C# Project, to regenerate .sln/.csproj files.
     
  3. Joe-Censored

    Joe-Censored

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    Note that MonoDevelop is specifically not supported starting in 2018.1, even if you've found a way to get it working for now, as it doesn't support the newer C# features they are adding support for in Unity. If you want to use MonoDevelop you should really consider staying with 2017.4.

    https://blogs.unity3d.com/2018/01/0...r-monodevelop-unity-starting-in-unity-2018-1/

     
  4. alexchandel

    alexchandel

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    Visual Studio for Mac is simply awful. It's slower and almost 10 times as bloated as MonoDevelop in size. I was happily able to get MonoDevelop 5.9.6 & Unity 2018.1.0f2 to play together for the projects I needed to build.

    Which C# features does MonoDevelop 7.6 not support that Unity 2018 adds & that VS for Mac supports?
     
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  5. Ali_unity

    Ali_unity

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    I never used Visual studio with unity , I always used mono develop but I just updated to 2018 and Visual studio is very slow compared to monodevelop,
     
  6. Lajo

    Lajo

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    I have the same problem. Yesterday I update Unity 2018 and Mondevelop could not be found. I dowloaded mondevelp again but the same problem. Now that I read this is seems UNITY does not even recognize Monodevelop. That is bad news