a few days ago, i downloaded mono and mcs from your homepage. Compiling and Linking
was no joy (missing files like bytefx.snk) But, OK fixed it. The mono seems to work.
OK, so I would like to run a small test program. Nothing exiting. A form with
a button which pops up a message box "Good By Cruel World!"
I am aware that this task is not so easy. Sure how can mono handle system.windows.forms?
You need windows to do that, I do not have windows, but I got wine. (At home on my
computer I got only Linux, at work I got all this $Microsoft, but that's in Bangkok)
So I found a directory in mcs /mcs/class/System.Windows.Forms. Oh, and it got a README.
I always read this kind of files. README says start wine by calling monostub.exe.so.That
makes sense, try to embed mono into an win32 executable. Needless to say I can not
find monostub.exe.so. But I found a WINELib directory which contains monostub.c
The README says just enter "make" in the WINELib, which does not make too much sense
because thw WINELib directory does not contain any Makefile. Ok, I thought not such
a big deal, just run winemaker on the monostub.c which sure also fails because I can just
compile, but not link undefined reference 'mono_jit_init' Sure now I try
to find out in which library contains this function. Or does it make sense anymore?
I mean. After I find this out, the next problem will accure for sure. I guess it will be
a neverending story!!! Downloading things here takes forever. I am in Vietiane just now, one
of the poorest countries on gods earth, we do not have good Internet, every download is
a pain... OK I am thinking about downloading an rpm instead of source. :-(
I am just a windows programmer. Making my living working as an ordinary Visual Basic, VB.NET
programmer in a pharma company. Sure I like the idea to have .NET on linux. Sure I would like to run my programs on linux. Sure I would like to get involved in your project.
But, it seems what nothing really works. Is it so hard to include a makefile a configure or
something for monostub.c. Is it so hard to write some help for your mono_ functions,
For example where to find the necessary libs?
I am not a guy who complains fast. For two days I am trying to get as much as possible
information about mono!
A little bit very disappointed!!!
Sincerly
Chris
Happy new Year anyway Happy 2547 (We are a little bit ahead of time here :-))
Vietiane, People Democratic Republic of Laos Bangkok, Kingdom of Thailand
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