RE: [Mono-list] Developing MONO

[Graham Allwood]

Thanks for the reply Erik and Sebastien.   Sebastien, do you use cygwin then?   I'm really keen on contributing (if I get the time) but I need to get the environment right. I'm a windows .net developer so would feel more at home in Windows. I take it that there aren't enough GNU build tools available for Windows to eliminate Cygwin are there? I've been trying for a while now to get Cygwin to build MONO from the scripts but there's always something wrong.   This may be a na�ve question but why is it so complicated building MONO? I mean these all these utilities used like configure, automake (or something).   Final question (for now), why can't both the Windows and Unix builds use the same Nant file?   Thanks   Graham   -----Original Message----- From: Sebastien Pouliot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 March 2003 22:57 To: Graham Allwood; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Developing MONO   Hello Graham,   I been using exclusively Windows 2000 for the last 6 months (well since I joined up Mono) without too much difficulty (once setup). However I only work on the class library (I can't build the runtime) and I never used GTK# or QT# (actually I never used Winforms), the Mono debugger (screenshots are so cool that I may install Linux just to try it) so YMMV.   For myself the most difficult part is that the Linux and Windows build are different (make versus NAnt), which sometimes lead to small problems (mostly when I break the Linux build because I forget to add the new files the unix.args).   So running XP shouldn't stop you from contributing in (most part of) Mono.   Sebastien Pouliot Security Architect, Motus Technologies, http://www.motus.com/ work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: Graham Allwood To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 12:27 PM Subject: [Mono-list] Developing MONO   Just out of interest, how many people use Unix / Linux for writing / contributing to� MONO and how many people use Windows?   I wouldn't mind helping but I'm running WinXP, am I going to find it difficult?   Graham