On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 23:38, Jonathan Pryor wrote: > More information could be useful. For example, does the ghosted win2k > image already contain mono, or was mono installed after the image was > made? > He didn't installed mono nor .net on test machines, so he tried to start the application as a normal .exe executable :-)
> Aside from that detail, I can answer your other question: Yes, a runtime > environment has to be installed in order to execute the C# application. > The runtime environment can be either mono or .NET, depending on your > platform (Windows, apparently). > > Please not, however, that due to the lack of Strong Naming/GAC/et. al, > mono-compiled applications WILL NOT run under .NET if they use anything > outside of corlib.dll/mscorlib.dll. This is a great deal of existing > classes (XML support is in System.Xml.dll, advanced text handling and > lots of other goodies is in System.dll, etc.). Corlib.dll primarily > contains File I/O, System.Collections, System.Reflection, Runtime > support (System.Runtime.*), and other essential classes. > > This is something we should fix, but it's not an easy problem. (Short > description: System.dll et. al are strong-named, and located in the > GAC. Since mono doesn't have GAC support, when it compiles against > mono's version of those libraries, the strong-name information isn't > included, so when executed under .NET the GAC-located assemblies won't > be used. Even GAC support under mono doesn't easily solve this problem, > due to the public/private key system used for shared assemblies.) > > Also note that the "other" direction -- running .NET-compiled apps under > mono -- should work, as there are no GAC/versioning issues. Unless, of > course, you're using something that hasn't been implemented yet > (System.Windows.Forms and the other parts of the class library that > aren't fully implemented yet). > > - Jon > > On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 11:06, pjaol wrote: > > Hi > > > > I'm having problems running mono c# applications on any machine other > > than the one it's compiled upon. > > I've compiled with on a win 2000 pc, and it fails on similar 2000 > > (ghosted from the same image) > > and also on XP machines. > > The xp machine pops up the following Application Error "failed to > > initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click on OK to terminate the application" > > > > Is there a a run time environment that has to be installed on all > > clients that run any mono c# applications? > > > > Thanks > > Patrick > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list -- Marco Canini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
