[Mono-devel-list] Building Mono on Windows

[Marek Safar]

Hello Nathan,

I think that is wasting of time.
Because format of  Microsoft sln, csproj, vbproj files is totally 
different in the latest Visual Studio 2005. And is based on new 
Microsoft tool called msbuild (Microsoft clone of ant, nant, . ..).
My suggestion is to focus on implementation this tool I ignore these 
"obsolete" formats. Especially when this tool is part of .NET 2.0 and 
became more and more important for us. We can be compatible with 
VS2002,VS2003 simply with the of Microsoft migration tool included in 
VS2005.
Maybe someone have started implementation, but I am not sure.

Marek

> I am working on a new way to build Mono in windows utilizing Visual 
> Studio.NET.  My first task is to get it to build using a NAnt build 
> file which is coming along nicely.  Then, I am hoping to make an XSLT 
> transform to convert the NAnt build file into VS.NET solution & 
> project files.  The hardest part to this all is that instead of using 
> gcc to compile I am attempting to utilize cl.exe to produce a windows 
> dll with the mono runtime.
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> Has anyone done any work in this area and have some 
> suggestions/comments that might be useful to me?
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> Thanks much!
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> Nathan**
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