[Mono-dev] What about the Windows setup of Mono?

[Kornél Pál]

Hi,

These files could be included in the installer.

But how do you compile Mono to have .lib files? I get no .lib files when
compiling Mono. Or do you use Visual C++ .NET?

Kornél

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Purbrick" <jimpurbrick at yahoo.co.uk>
To: "Daniel Morgan" <danielmorgan at verizon.net>; "Wade Berrier"
<wberrier at novell.com>
Cc: <mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: [Mono-dev] What about the Windows setup of Mono?


> Hi Wade,
>
> I'd really like mono.dll and mono.lib files packaged
> with the Windows install so I can embed mono on
> Windows. Currently I have to use cygwin to build on
> Windows from source just to generate a dll and lib to
> link against (there may be an easier way to do this,
> please let me know).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jim.
>
> --- Daniel Morgan <danielmorgan at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> Hopefully, you can continue allowing the Mono Win32
>> installers to allow
>> parallel installs.
>>
>> I need the ability to have multiple versions of mono
>> installed.  Some
>> application working in one version, such as, Mono
>> 1.1.6 do not work in
>> Mono 1.1.8.
>>
>> Wade Berrier wrote:
>>
>> >Hi Kornél,
>> >
>> >I'm working on the windows installer and it should
>> be finished shortly.
>> >I'm shooting for today but it may be tomorrow.
>> >
>> >The good news is that after I'm done automating it
>> the installers will
>> >be released in parallel with the mono releases.
>> >
>> >Your suggestions are very much appreciated.
>> >
>> >I believe (Paco, correct me if I'm wrong) the
>> reason Paco used batch
>> >files instead of setting up environment variables
>> was so that multiple
>> >mono versions could be installed in parallel.
>> >
>> >I will look into packaging libgdiplus with the
>> installer.  I think
>> >that's a great idea.
>> >
>> >
>> >Wade
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 20:08 +0200, Kornél Pál
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >>Hi,
>> >>
>> >>Is anyone working on it? When will it be released?
>> >>
>> >>Some suggestions:
>> >>I don't like to have bat files in bin directory
>> while having executables in
>> >>lib directory. I think environment variables
>> should be set in Windows
>> >>instead of using batch files. And I would like to
>> have an option to add
>> >>mono\bin directory to PATH.
>> >>
>> >>Some others from the archive:
>>
>>>http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/mono-devel-list/2005-September/014803.html
>>
>>>http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/mono-devel-list/2005-September/014817.html
>> >>
>> >>Kornél
>> >>
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