[Mono-dev] Building mono on Windows issues.

[Bryan Crotaz]

continued... (grrr PEBKAC)
https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/features/code_analysis.html

On 16 October 2014 14:35, Bryan Crotaz <bryan.crotaz at silvercurve.co.uk>
wrote:

> 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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