Hi Danny, I am not an expert but i ran in the same kind of trouble like you before...
Well the command you run to compile has to look like this : mcs hello.cs /r:System.dll /r:System.Windows.Forms.dll /r:System.Drawing.dll You can find a lot of very interesting information there : http://bdn.borland.com/article/0,1410,32073,00.html and on the same website cheers Gilles > Message du 13/04/05 12:16 > De : "Armand du Plessis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > A : [email protected] > Copie à : > Objet : RE: [Mono-list] namespace System.Windows.Forms cannot be found > > What is the command line you used to compile the application? > > Did you reference the System.Windows.Forms assembly when you compiled? > > The command line option : -reference:ASS References the specified > assembly (-r:ASS) > > hth, > > Armand > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Danny Brugman > Sent: 13 April 2005 11:37 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Mono-list] namespace System.Windows.Forms cannot be found > > Hi, > > This might be a real beginners-question, but I couldn't find an answer > anywhere on the internet, nor in the gnome documentation / Windows Forms > home page. > > Issue is that I try to compile a very simple hello-world winforms > application (Linux, Fedora FC3). I installed mono 1.1.6 + winforms rpm + all > required dependencies (libgdiplus, cairo, etc), and I see a > System.Windows.Forms directory in '/usr/lib/mono/gac/'. > > After invoking mcs I get the following error: > > hello.cs(2) error CS0234: The type or namespace name `Windows' could not be > found innamespace `System' > > Could someone please help me out? > > > Many thanks, > > Danny Brugman > > > BTW Here is the source: > > using System; > using System.Windows.Forms; > using System.Drawing; > > class MyForm : Form > { > MyForm () > { > Text = "My First MWF App"; > } > > protected override void OnPaint (PaintEventArgs e) > { > e.Graphics.DrawString ("Hello world", Font, > new SolidBrush (Color.Black), ClientRectangle); > } > > static void Main () > { > Application.Run (new MyForm ()); > } > } > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
