{"id":971,"date":"2016-01-13T20:46:51","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T19:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/Blog\/?p=971"},"modified":"2019-01-17T14:00:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T13:00:30","slug":"windows-unity-games-on-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/windows-unity-games-on-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Unity-Games on Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fact is, beginning with Unity 4, just about all games run on Linux as well<\/strong>. Unless they’re buggy, explicitly check for the platform or use plugins not available on Linux.<\/p>\n

I found this Howto in Russian<\/a> on how to fix an incomplete Unity runtime so it runs on Linux, could reproduce the effects, and so here’s the writeup in English on how it’s done.<\/p>\n

This is how the minimal Unity-runtime for Linux looks: <\/p>\n

\u251c\u2500\u2500 player_Data
\n\u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u251c\u2500\u2500 Mono
\n\u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u251c\u2500\u2500 etc
\n\u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u251c\u2500\u2500 x86
\n\u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2514\u2500\u2500 libmono.so
\n\u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2514\u2500\u2500 x86_64
\n\u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 . \u2514\u2500\u2500 libmono.so
\n\u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u251c\u2500\u2500 Plugins
\n\u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u251c\u2500\u2500 x86
\n\u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2514\u2500\u2500 ScreenSelector.so
\n\u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2514\u2500\u2500 x86_64
\n\u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 . \u2514\u2500\u2500 ScreenSelector.so
\n\u251c\u2500\u2500 player.x86
\n\u2514\u2500\u2500 player.x86_64<\/code><\/p>\n

The word “player” is replaced by the actual name of the game. Note that these files are the same for every game that uses the same Unity version. <\/p>\n

Find Version<\/h2>\n

Within the existing player_Data<\/code> directory, you’ll find a file named mainData<\/code>. This contains the Unity version, and you will need to add the correct version of the Linux runtime, so you’ll first need to extract that version: <\/p>\n

head mainData | strings | head -1<\/code><\/p>\n

if this doesn’t get you the version, the game uses a very old Unity, which has the version information towards the end of the file, but for which no Linux support exists anyway. <\/p>\n

Get runtime<\/h2>\n

Now you need to find the correct runtime. You can check mainData of Unity games supported on Linux, and copy the respective files over. Something like this: <\/p>\n

find . -name mainData -print0 | xargs --null grep --with-filename \"4.5.5f1\"<\/code><\/p>\n

of course, some people already have collections of runtimes, like this: https:\/\/cloud.mail.ru\/public\/6SdA\/BBgyg3kjy<\/a><\/p>\n

if the runtime you need isn’t available on your system, you can extract it from the official releases with 7z. The not-so-nice part is, every release comes as a huge .exe with a size of 1GB or more. And there are a lot of releases: <\/p>\n