maj00r 6cedf8b6f6 Lay out and drive the depot browser the way the old starter did
Picking a category picks its first class and lists that class, instead of
every vehicle of the category; only categories with something in them are
offered, in the old order. The archival switch has its own line, the class
box shows the thumbnail of the class picked, and the search sits above the
list and looks through every vehicle. The rows are the bare texture names, a
set marked faintly; an empty list says what to do; the thumbnail and Add
share a line so the list keeps its height.
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StarterNG

Launcher for the MaSzyna train simulator, written in C# with Avalonia.

Building a native (NativeAOT) build

The project publishes as a self-contained NativeAOT binary — no .NET runtime is needed on the target machine. The commands below are the same ones CI runs, see .github/workflows/dotnet.yml.

Requirements:

  • .NET SDK 9
  • Linux: a native toolchain and zlib headers — sudo apt install clang zlib1g-dev (Debian/Ubuntu) or sudo dnf install clang zlib-devel (Fedora)
  • Windows: the Visual Studio C++ build tools (Desktop development with C++)

Restore for the target runtime first, then publish:

dotnet restore StarterNG/StarterNG.csproj -r linux-x64

dotnet publish StarterNG/StarterNG.csproj \
    -c Release -r linux-x64 --self-contained true --no-restore \
    -p:PublishAot=true -p:PublishTrimmed=true \
    -o publish/linux-x64

For a Windows build swap both linux-x64 occurrences for win-x64 (and the line continuations for PowerShell backticks). NativeAOT does not cross-compile, so the Windows package has to be built on Windows and the Linux one on Linux — that is why CI uses a windows-2022 and an ubuntu-22.04 runner.

The output directory is the whole distributable: the Starter executable, the Skia/HarfBuzz native libraries and startercfg/ with the translations and the default key bindings. The .dbg (or .pdb) file next to it is debug symbols and can be dropped from a release. Trim/AOT analysis warnings during the publish are expected and do not fail the build.

CI builds both runtimes on every push and pull request to main and staging, and on manual dispatch. Pushes additionally replace a rolling pre-release with the packaged artifacts — tagged latest for main and staging for staging.

Development build

dotnet build StarterNG/StarterNG.csproj
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