Install Visual Studio Code Mac Brew
This section provides a step-by-step guide for setting up your development environment for macOS.
Download and install Visual Studio Code Download Visual Studio Cod It is NOT Visual Studio 2017; 2. Click on zip archive and you’ll see VS Code logo. Click on it and you’ll see VS Code opened. Then do the following setup: Open VSC. Go to Code – Preferences – Extensions. Visual Studio Code is a lightweight code editor with support for many programming languages through extensions. To install the latest version, use Homebrew: brew install -cask visual-studio-code macOS integration. Launch VS Code from the command line. After that, you can launch VS Code from your terminal: code. Will open VS Code.
Install Visual Studio for Mac
Go to the following URL to download and install Visual Studio for Mac: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/mac/
Install MonoGame extension for Visual Studio for Mac
- Brew install-cask visual-studio-code. Names: Microsoft Visual Studio Code. /api/cask/visual-studio-code.json (JSON API) Cask code on GitHub. Current version: 1.55.2.
- In this post I am going to show how to setup Visual Studio Code in Mac OS for building and debugging C applications using CMake as buildtool. Using brew you can install cmake.
Download the MonoGame extension for Visual Studio for Mac from the following link: https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/releases/download/v3.8/MonoDevelop.MonoGame_IDE_VisualStudioForMac_3.8.0.1641.mpack
Open up Visual Studio for Mac and you should be able to see a window like so:
Visual Studio For Mac Tutorial
In the menu bar, click on Visual Studio, and then click on the Extensions... menu item.
Next, click on the Install from file... button in the bottom left and select the extension file you downloaded in the previous step.
Finally, click on the Install button once again.
[Optional] Install MonoGame templates for .NET Core CLI or Rider IDE
[Optional] Install MGCB Editor
MGCB Editor is a tool for editing .mgcb files, which are used for building content.
If you plan on using Visual Studio for Mac, the extension you installed already contains an integrated version of this tool, so you can skip this step.
[Optional] Set up Wine for effect compilation
Install Visual Studio Code Mac Brew 2019
Effect compilation requires access to DirectX, so it won't work natively on macOS systems, but it can be used through Wine.
Install brew
Install wine64:
Create wine prefix:
If you ever need to undo the script, simply delete the .winemonogame folder in your home directory.
Next up:Creating a new project