Re: [Mono-dev] Mono in WinPE - need minimal installation.

2010-11-02 Thread Robert Jordan
On 02.11.2010 03:23, greenaj wrote: I would like to use Mono 2.8 under WinPE for customized Windows installations. MS .NET will not install in WinPE. I am looking for a best practices way of creating a minimal set of Mono DLL's and runtime libraries for copy into WinPE for to run an

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono in WinPE - need minimal installation.

2010-11-02 Thread greenaj
Thanks for the reply, but I was wondering if there was a way of manually installing mono, without all of the libraries and assemblies in the GAC. We are running Mono under WinPE. Different versions of mono apps may be downloaded from web services and launched while a machine is being re-imaged.

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono in WinPE - need minimal installation.

2010-11-02 Thread Stefanos A.
You might be able to embed a minimal version of mono into a native launcher with just enough of the runtime to execute your apps. Yes, this entails building mono yourself. It's not hard. See: http://www.mono-project.com/Small_footprint http://www.mono-project.com/Embedding_Mono 2010/11/2 greenaj

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono in WinPE - need minimal installation.

2010-11-02 Thread Robert Jordan
On 02.11.2010 19:18, greenaj wrote: The mkbundle'd files are rather beefy, so we wanted to save on download size. We are hoping to manually create a minimal Mono runtime environment, tailored for what we need. A trimmed down runtime would be at least as large as a bundle. You'd only save