[Mono-dev] Doing dev under win?

Tue Sep 11 10:53:21 UTC 2012

One unimplemented feature i remember, for example, was the 'WebBrowser' integration, I was using a 'HtmlEditor' control (source free on the web) which relied on WebBrowser -- but before i go further: I want to say Windows 8 seems to have dropped support for that too.  So maybe Mono is not alone.

-rob

On Sep 10, 2012, at 10:26 PM, Daniel Morgan <monodanmorg at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Yeah, building Mono in Windows  is painful.  Linux is so much better.  I would use a Linux distribution that includes support for Mono, such as, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, or Debian.  There could be others, but I haven't tried them.
> 
> Virtual Box works with a Windows host and Linux guest very well.  Just make sure to install the additions in your Linux guest.  However, it could get slow building mono in a vm.  You might be better dual-booting.
> 
> Just curious.  What were the unimplemented features?
> 
> In my spare time, I've been playing with the Arduino UNO R3 microcontroller.  I love to see how I can fit that in with Mono and/or MonoDevelop.  But so far, I haven't.  I think the Netduino at one time looked into getting MonoDevelop to build Netduino sketches (programs).  I found playing with this microcontroller was a great way to learn (or re-learn) electronics.  So far, it has been very fun.  Even Radio Shack caries it.  And many places online too.
> 
> Anybody know what is up with the mono-patches mailing list?  I've been following this list for many years.
> 
> From: "robwilkens at gmail.com" <robwilkens at gmail.com>
> To: James Bellinger <james at illusorystudios.com>; mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com 
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 9:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [Mono-dev] Doing dev under win?
> 
> Thanks..  I did compiling under CYGWIN months ago, but I always had issues getting it to work outside of CYGWIN when I built it in CYGWIN, perhaps that’s not worth the hassle of trying to figure out again...
>  
> Working with VirtualBox seems like it’s probably the better option.  I can probably find my own way here, since I’m somewhat comfortable with the Linux command line.  I’ll avoid compiling outside of Linux I guess.
>  
> My primary interest lies in keeping busy when I have nothing else to do.  I originally had an idea for a mono project months ago, that is a project which uses mono (for my own use, not for public consumption), but then I ran into some unimplemented or incompatible features or just bugs, and redirected my efforts for a while into trying to help mono along by looking at the bug report database and that was another way to keep busy for a while – it seemed much more fun to contribute to the project than what I was doing.  I’m not sure how involved I’ll become.  I don’t want to engross myself in a proejct so much that I stop going to the gym, or reading as a past time for example.  But I do want something to do in those in between times.
>  
> -Rob
>  
> From: James Bellinger
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 9:03 PM
> To: mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
> Subject: Re: [Mono-dev] Doing dev under win?
>  
> You can get Mono Tools for testing Mono on Windows. I haven't tried it in a while though, as I ran into many issues with its debugging support...
> 
> Alternatively, a command line just running mono --debug does the job. It's fairly compatible with MS.NET so you can just debug there and run on Mono.
> 
> If you mean developing *Mono*, I compile on Linux and copy that to Windows. Never been able to compile Mono in Windows, but the cross-compile works and that's sufficient.
> 
> For a VM download VirtualBox. Works great, and you can share a folder between the two for cross-compiling Mono.
> 
> Let me know if you have any other questions, be glad to help with whatever. I use Mono on Windows nearly every day, so :)
> 
> James
> 
> On 9/10/2012 4:39 PM, Rob Wilkens wrote:
>> Is there a faq or getting started page for development of mono under windows.  I know some of it probably requires cygwin, and i would like to also use visual studio, and may even set up a linux virtual machine. I am hoping there is a getting started guide.    direct url not required, just tell me roughly how to find it.
>> The last few weeks I've been working on being comfortable in win8..  now I would like to try and get some work done with it.  Sorry for screwing up regex speed with that poorly thought out fix, but I think I've gotten past my embarrassment and would love to be back working on bug reports and maybe eventually bigger projects. 
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