[Gtk-sharp-list] Can I use Visual Studio.NET IDE for programming GTK#

[Jonathan Pryor]

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On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 06:25, ZYX Rationalist wrote:
> Hello ;
> 
> Can GTK# be compiled in VS.NET IDE ?

Probably.  But it would take some work, as I don't think there are any
VS.NET project files in CVS, so you'd have to create your own, at
least.  Plus, you'd first have to get the "generated" .cs files (which
are in turn based off the XML API description files and the *.custom
files), so you'd still have to use part of the current Gtk# build
system.

> And can we compile same code without any modifications
> in native form in Linux. If we can have a native exe
> of GTK# in Linux , will it run faster than windows
> version ?

Here I think someone is confused.  Gtk# isn't a .exe, it's a set of
.dll's (though the samples are .exes, but who cares about the samples? 
In terms of performance, anyway?).

Furthermore, Gtk# is managed code (wrapping a native library, of
course).  The only possible benefit to compiling Gtk# under VS.NET is to
get the (presumably better?) optimizations that CSC.EXE provides but MCS
doesn't currently provide.

However, given that most of Gtk# (that I've seen) is a thin-ish wrapper
over the native GTK+ libraries, I find it doubtful that any CSC.EXE
optimizations would actually provide a significant performance gain.

So I highly doubt that a VS.NET-compiled version of Gtk# would be any
faster than an mcs-generated version.

A better bet would be to compile GTK+ with VS.NET instead of GCC -- at
least GTK+ is a large body of code, and VS.NET tends to have decent
native code optimization.  I have no idea if this is even possible,
though.

 - Jon