Linux compatibility

[BalintBende]

Hello,

I saw others also opened this topic. I have basically two questions.

• When are you planning to release XbimGltf?
• Are you planning to make compatible with .NET 5.0 on linux? I know the package relies on XbimGeometry, which is not yet compatible, but are there any windows dependencies that prevents compiling on linux? Linux compatibility XbimGeometry#306

Thanks very much your answer in advance.

Cheers

[rubit0]

Any news on Linux support?

[andyward]

Realistically it won't be any time soon. It needs a major change to the Geometry module to support Linux as per xBimTeam/XbimGeometry#461 (comment)

Currently we're focussing on get v6 Geometry out with IFC4x3support on netcore 6+

In the interim your best option using xbim is probably to wrap this conversion up into some self-contained service that you invoke from your linux app. (i.e. we provide this as a REST API call in Flex Flow).

[andyward]

When are you planning to release XbimGltf?

This is probably one for @CBenghi as he maintains this repo. I believe a 5.1 version is published to nuget

[rubit0]

Its not a big problem, I'm using it in a ASP.NET Webapp hosted on Azure App Service and the Windows environment cost 50€ vs Linux with just 10€. Although long term it would be great to have it detached from Windows.

Thank you for your great service and effort, Xbim rescued me 2 years ago when the Tridify service suddenly did shutdown.