[Mono-list] mono c# portability

[Marco Canini]

On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 23:38, Jonathan Pryor wrote:
> More information could be useful.  For example, does the ghosted win2k
> image already contain mono, or was mono installed after the image was
> made?
> 
He didn't installed mono nor .net on test machines, so he tried to start
the application as a normal .exe executable :-)

> Aside from that detail, I can answer your other question: Yes, a runtime
> environment has to be installed in order to execute the C# application. 
> The runtime environment can be either mono or .NET, depending on your
> platform (Windows, apparently).
> 
> Please not, however, that due to the lack of Strong Naming/GAC/et. al,
> mono-compiled applications WILL NOT run under .NET if they use anything
> outside of corlib.dll/mscorlib.dll.  This is a great deal of existing
> classes (XML support is in System.Xml.dll, advanced text handling and
> lots of other goodies is in System.dll, etc.).  Corlib.dll primarily
> contains File I/O, System.Collections, System.Reflection, Runtime
> support (System.Runtime.*), and other essential classes.
> 
> This is something we should fix, but it's not an easy problem.  (Short
> description: System.dll et. al are strong-named, and located in the
> GAC.  Since mono doesn't have GAC support, when it compiles against
> mono's version of those libraries, the strong-name information isn't
> included, so when executed under .NET the GAC-located assemblies won't
> be used.  Even GAC support under mono doesn't easily solve this problem,
> due to the public/private key system used for shared assemblies.)
> 
> Also note that the "other" direction -- running .NET-compiled apps under
> mono -- should work, as there are no GAC/versioning issues.  Unless, of
> course, you're using something that hasn't been implemented yet
> (System.Windows.Forms and the other parts of the class library that
> aren't fully implemented yet).
> 
>  - Jon
> 
> On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 11:06, pjaol wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I'm having problems running mono c# applications on any machine other 
> > than the one it's compiled upon.
> > I've compiled with on a win 2000 pc, and it fails on similar 2000 
> > (ghosted from the same image)
> > and also on XP machines.
> > The xp machine pops up the following Application Error "failed to 
> > initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click on OK to terminate the application"
> > 
> > Is there a a run time environment that has to be installed on all 
> > clients that run any mono c# applications?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Patrick
> > 
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