[Mono-dev] Building mono on Windows issues.

[Bryan Crotaz]

You can probably do 5-10% max of resharper this way.  Here's some examples
of how it speeds up my day:

On 16 October 2014 14:22, Greg Young <gregoryyoung1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> This may help you a bit
>
> https://www.google.co.uk/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=greg+young+sublime+is+sublime&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&gfe_rd=cr&ei=FsY_VN3ALO3H8gfZwoKwBg
> you can do much of VS + R# in sublime/vim if you spend the time to set
> it up.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Greg
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Alex J Lennon
> <ajlennon at dynamicdevices.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > On 16/10/2014 12:38, Edward Ned Harvey (mono) wrote:
> >>> From: Alex J Lennon [mailto:ajlennon at dynamicdevices.co.uk]
> >>>
> >>>> Generally
> >>>> speaking, the only reasons to build on windows are because you want to
> >>>> debug the code, which is generally better done on mac/linux.  Or
> you're
> >>>> trying to accomplish something else, like obtain a specific DLL (such
> as
> >>>> Mono.Data.Sqlite)...  Which usually you can obtain some other way
> such as
> >>>> building on linux and then copying the DLL over to windows.
> >>> Agreed, but the the other reason is that you want to use a current Mono
> >>> yet nobody has gotten around to an official release of Mono for WIndows
> >>> since 3.2.3.
> >> Agreed, but that's the point - Why would you want to use Mono on
> windows?  The only reasons I know of are (a) you wish to debug the mono
> sources using Visual Studio, or (b) you wish to use one of Mono's
> assemblies in windows, such as Mono.Security, Mono.Data.Sqlite, etc.
> >>
> >> For case (a), at least for me, it's been easier to transition to
> Xamarin Studio or Monodevelop on mac/linux.
> >>
> >> For case (b) I was able to brainlessly copy Mono.Security.dll, and I
> struggled a little bit to copy Mono.Data.Sqlite.dll, but after a few tries,
> managed to get it right more easily than getting it to build natively on
> windows.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I guess different people will have different use-cases but this is ours
> > (which I don't think is so unique)
> >
> > We develop software targetting Embedded Linux, Windows desktop/server
> > and Windows CE/Embedded Compact with .NET CF.
> >
> > We use Visual Studio (plus Resharper as Bryan so rightly says - couldn't
> > get along without it) as we find this to be a productive development
> > environment.
> > In addition there is a lot of development resource out there with people
> > who know and are qualified on the VS toolchain.
> >
> > Ideally we'd be write once and it'd just work whatever the platform or
> > framework, but the reality is we run into platform dependencies (SQLite
> > as you say, serial comms in the past), native dependencies and
> > configuration issues.
> >
> > From a productivity perspective and for risk management for testing and
> > deployment I wish to be able to develop and debug under Visual Studio
> > with Mono as a framework option.
> >
> > I'd like to be able to do that with Mono on Windows as a check that no
> > issues come up between running on the .NET framework and running on Mono.
> >
> > In addition I'd like to be able to remote debug to Embedded Linux with
> > Visual Studio - which  I used to be able to do with Xamarin's Monotools
> > Server before it disappeared.
> >
> > I'm currently investigating a VS plugin to replace Monotools Server
> > which I've not had much luck with yet, but I'm optimistic:
> > https://github.com/DynamicDevices/monodebugvs
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Alex
> >
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