Operating Systems

Barcode Xpress for .NET Core is supported on x64 Windows operating systems of the following versions:   

• Windows 8.1
• Windows 10 Versions 1607 and above
• Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and above
• Windows Server 2012
• Windows Server 2016
• Windows Server 2019

Barcode Xpress for .NET Core is supported on x64 Linux operating systems of the following versions:

• Ubuntu 18.04
• Ubuntu 16.04
• CentOS 8
• CentOS 7    
• Debian 9
• Debian 10

Development Environments

• Microsoft .NET Core 2.1 and higher
• Visual Studio 2017 or newer with .NET Core cross-platform development workload (Optional)
• Java Runtime Environment 1.8 or later (to run License Manager and Server Licensing Utility)

Linux Dependencies

On Linux operating systems, the following libraries may be required as runtime dependencies:

• libgdiplus (v6.0.1 recommended. See below for additional information.)

Additionally, one of the two following packages is required on most Linux systems. (Whichever is available for your distribution.):

• libc6-dev (Debian based distributions: Ubuntu, Linux Mint)
• glibc-devel (RPM based distributions such as CentOS, Fedora, and RHEL)

Libgdiplus Considerations

Barcode Xpress for .NET Core primarily accepts images as System.Drawing.Bitmap objects. Internally, the .NET Core Runtime uses libgdiplus to load images on disk into these objects. While most images will load correctly with the most recent versions of libgdiplus available in distribution repositories, BMP version 4 and newer images will not have all data loaded properly and will cause some barcodes to not be decoded.

Microsoft recommends using libgdiplus version 6.0.1 or higher: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/dependencies?tabs=netcore31&pivots=os-linux

If this version is not available for your distribution, you can find instructions for adding the Mono repository and getting the most recent version here: https://www.mono-project.com/download/stable/#download-lin