Hi there, (Sorry if this question is arealdy addressed somewhere else, I did not find it anywhere.) Big fan of Stardew, big fan of modding, I want to contribute for the community and adding some new features. However, for personnal purpose, I have to play on a MacOs X for a while. So I've started following the Modder Guide, but I notice that the required target framework for modding is ".NET Framework 4.5, 4.5.1, or 4.5.2" for best compatibility. But, .NET Framework is Windows-based only, and is not available for MacOS (see Download .NET page). Only available for MacOs (to date) is ".NET Core 2.2" which is the cross-platform version of .NET. My question is: can I still make mods using .net core 2.2? What are the compatibilities restriction between .net core 2.2 and .NET Framework 4.5+ ? If Stardew is running that well on MacOs right now, isn't it because it does not have too many Windows EDIT: Even if I keep going with the target framework set to ".net core 2.2", I have a build error when I try to add the package "Pathoschild.Stardew.ModBuildConfig". Apparently this package depends on a file called "Microsoft.Build.Utilities.v4.0" that is part of .NET Framework 4.x. Seems harder than expected. MacOS version: 10.14.3 dotnet version: 2.2.106 Mono JIT compiler version: 5.18.1.3 Visual Code version: 1.33.1 Thank you for your answers! Best, Thomas
Hey, I'm not on a Mac, but make sure you are using Visual Studio for Mac, not just VS Code Once you've got it, this is how you choose the target framework using that program. Hope that helps!
Hello hatmouse, This is totally right, the tutorial and guide suggest to use Visual Studio and not only VS Code. It is just that I am 'over' used to VS Code Unfortunately, this does not solve the incompatibility problem between MacOS and .NET Framework, which is required to mod in SMAPI. Thank you for your comment Best, Thomas
The SMAPI modding guide covers MacOS too. You'll be using Mono instead, a MacOS-compatible implementation of .NET Framework.
