On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Grant Birchmeier <gr...@grantb.net> wrote:
> Does anyone know how to get all the necessary mono-3.2.3/gtksharp-2.12.11 > libraries installed in a proper Windows way such that Visual Studio can see > them? > For my projects, I've always used the browse button to go to the installation folder and add the Gtk libraries. At my job, we do that for even the "proper" Windows assemblies from third parties (Infragistics, Nevron, NUnit) mainly because of policy of our staff. When I was more involved with Mono/Gtk#, I remember a discussion about why it is done that way. One was philosophy: the GAC is a great place for the runtime to find DLLs, but not always a great place to code. That is why Mono on Linux doesn't automatically look up assemblies in the GAC and insists on using `pkgconfig` or direct path references. As such, my last two jobs both had that same philosophy so that doesn't bother me. The DLLs that you can't add via the GAC are usually p/invoked by the ones that do, so just copy those into your bin directory and you are usually good to go. Again, this is usually the case when I'm using p/invoke libraries (Objective Grid for example). https://www.myget.org/F/mfgames/ Now, what *may* work for you is to use a NuGet package for Gtk. As far as I know, there isn't an official one, but i did make a temporary one for the Gtk 2.12 stuff mainly because I was doing a lot of little projects in Visual Studio and I got tired of adding references (plus I wanted to learn NuGet). Not entirely sure how far it will get you, but it worked well enough for my needs. The packages in question are Gtk, Mono.Cairo, and Mono.Posix. At the moment, I'm not doing Gtk# programming because of secondary projects (writing a novel and I have child being born in five weeks), but it *may* get you down a different path that is easier. Then again, it may not. - Dylan
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