On 16/10/2014 04:56, Edward Ned Harvey (mono) wrote: >> From: mono-devel-list-boun...@lists.ximian.com [mailto:mono-devel-list- >> boun...@lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Chris Eelmaa >> >> I have question regarding building mono on windows, >> namely I've tried a lot of times, and had a lot of different > Many venture into the waters of mono build on windows. Few live to tell the > tale.... ;-) > > The honest truth is, many of us have sunk hours or days into trying to get it > to work. Many of us (including me) strike out and eventually give up. > Occasionally, people come to this mailing list and post a procedure that > worked for them. I've never seen the same procedure twice, I always try, and > it's never worked for me. > > Your best bet is to search this mailing list archive for the most recent > posts of people succeeding, and see if that's able to help you along. > > Your *other* best bet, is to ask yourself "Why, God, Why?" As I have done, > and others like me who were also lost in the battle. Generally speaking, the > only reasons to build on windows are because you want to debug the code, > which is generally better done on mac/linux. Or you're trying to accomplish > something else, like obtain a specific DLL (such as Mono.Data.Sqlite)... > Which usually you can obtain some other way such as building on linux and > then copying the DLL over to windows. > > So if you don't succeed at building on windows, then ask yourself (and this > list) if there's another way to accomplish whatever you're actually trying to > accomplish. > _______________________________________________ > Mono-devel-list mailing list > Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list > >
Ed, Agreed, but the the other reason is that you want to use a current Mono yet nobody has gotten around to an official release of Mono for WIndows since 3.2.3. Cheers, Alex _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list
