Instead of trying to get the location of the dotnet CLI from PATH (which is unavailable in some platforms that don't allow reading environment variables), we execute the dotnet CLI to list the available SDKs and find the hostfxr location that way.
Some platforms don't support hostfxr but we can use the coreclr/monosgen library directly to initialize the runtime.
Android exports now use the `android` runtime identifier instead of `linux-bionic`, this removes the restrictions we previously had:
- Adds support for all Android architectures (arm32, arm64, x32, and x64), previously only the 64-bit architectures were supported.
- Loads `System.Security.Cryptography.Native.Android` (the .NET library that binds to the Android OS crypto functions).
- Create CSharpScript for generic C# types.
- `ScriptPathAttributeGenerator` registers the path for the generic type definition.
- `ScriptManagerBridge` lookup uses the generic type definition that was registered by the generator.
- Constructed generic types use a virtual `csharp://` path so they can be registered in the map and loaded as if there was a different file for each constructed type, even though they all share the same real path.
- This allows getting the base type for a C# type that derives from a generic type.
- Shows base scripts in the _Add Node_ and _Create Resource_ dialogs even when they are generic types.
- `get_global_class_name` implementation was moved to C# and now always returns the base type even if the script is not a global class (this behavior matches GDScript).
- Create `CSharpScript::TypeInfo` struct to hold all the type information about the C# type that corresponds to the `CSharpScript`, and use it as the parameter in `UpdateScriptClassInfo` to avoid adding more parameters.
- Remove `AotBuilder` that was used for MonoAOT in 3.x.
- Remove `PlaySettings` that was used for IDE support in 3.x.
- Remove `ApiAssembliesInfo` that was used for Project generation in 3.x.
- Remove pieces of the old iOS support from 3.x.
When exporting a game that contains a C# solution, a feature is added so the exported game can check if it should initialize the .NET module. Otherwise, the module initialization is skipped so games without C# won't check for the assemblies and won't show alerts when they're missing.
This support is experimental and requires .NET 8
Known issues:
- Requires macOS due to use of lipo and xcodebuild
- arm64 simulator templates are not currently included
in the official packaging
- Do not reload scripts from non-collectible assemblies
- Do not load GodotTools as collectible
- Do not attempt to reload the same project assembly forever
This applies our existing style guide, and adds a new rule to that style
guide for modular components such as platform ports and modules:
Includes from the platform port or module ("local" includes) should be listed
first in their own block using relative paths, before Godot's "core" includes
which use "absolute" (project folder relative) paths, and finally thirdparty
includes.
Includes in `#ifdef`s come after their relevant section, i.e. the overall
structure is:
- Local includes
* Conditional local includes
- Core includes
* Conditional core includes
- Thirdparty includes
* Conditional thirdparty includes
* Overrides no longer happen for set/get.
* They must be checked with a new function: `ProjectSettings::get_setting_with_override()`.
* GLOBAL_DEF/GLOBAL_GET updated to use this
This change solves many problems:
* General confusion about getting the actual or overriden setting.
* Feature tags available after settings are loaded were being ignored, they are now considered.
* Hacks required for the Project Settings editor to work.
Fixes#64100. Fixes#64014. Fixes#61908.
As many open source projects have started doing it, we're removing the
current year from the copyright notice, so that we don't need to bump
it every year.
It seems like only the first year of publication is technically
relevant for copyright notices, and even that seems to be something
that many companies stopped listing altogether (in a version controlled
codebase, the commits are a much better source of date of publication
than a hardcoded copyright statement).
We also now list Godot Engine contributors first as we're collectively
the current maintainers of the project, and we clarify that the
"exclusive" copyright of the co-founders covers the timespan before
opensourcing (their further contributions are included as part of Godot
Engine contributors).
Also fixed "cf." Frenchism - it's meant as "refer to / see".
We aim to make the C# API reflection-free, mainly for concerns about
performance, and to be able to target NativeAOT in refletion-free mode,
which reduces the binary size.
One of the main usages of reflection still left was the dynamic
invokation of callable delegates, and for some time I wasn't sure
I would find an alternative solution that I'd be happy with.
The new solution uses trampoline functions to invoke the delegates:
```
static void Trampoline(object delegateObj, NativeVariantPtrArgs args, out godot_variant ret)
{
if (args.Count != 1)
throw new ArgumentException($"Callable expected 1 arguments but received {args.Count}.");
string res = ((Func<int, string>)delegateObj)(
VariantConversionCallbacks.GetToManagedCallback<int>()(args[0])
);
ret = VariantConversionCallbacks.GetToVariantCallback<string>()(res);
}
Callable.CreateWithUnsafeTrampoline((int num) => "Foo" + num, &Trampoline);
```
Of course, this is too much boilerplate for user code. To improve this,
the `Callable.From` methods were added. These are overloads that take
`Action` and `Func` delegates, which covers the most common use cases:
lambdas and method groups:
```
// Lambda
Callable.From((int num) => "Foo" + num);
// Method group
string AppendNum(int num) => "Foo" + num;
Callable.From(AppendNum);
```
Unfortunately, due to limitations in the C# language, implicit
conversions from delegates to `Callable` are not supported.
`Callable.From` does not support custom delegates. These should be
uncommon, but the Godot C# API actually uses them for event signals.
As such, the bindings generator was updated to generate trampoline
functions for event signals. It was also optimized to use `Action`
instead of a custom delegate for parameterless signals, which removes
the need for the trampoline functions for those signals.
The change to reflection-free invokation removes one of the last needs
for `ConvertVariantToManagedObjectOfType`. The only remaining usage is
from calling script constructors with parameters from the engine
(`CreateManagedForGodotObjectScriptInstance`). Once that one is made
reflection-free, `ConvertVariantToManagedObjectOfType` can be removed.
