[Mono-list] Using Mono to compile for .NET Compact Framework (PocketPC)

[Enzo Michelangeli]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Malte Hildingson" <tds00mahi@tellus.thn.htu.se>
To: "Enzo Michelangeli" <em@em.no-ip.com>
Cc: <mono-list@lists.ximian.com>
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 12:03 PM


> My guess is that since Mono is not (yet) aware of any compact
> framework, it compiles methods in classes that are removed in the
compact
> release of .NET (it's quite an extensive list) and when you try to run
> applications compiled with Mono on libraries that are stripped, you run
> into a missing method sooner or later.

That was my guess too, so I tried to tell the Mono mcs compiler to point
to the Compact Framework's libraries. Is there any way of telling the
compiler "forget about your default framework completely, and use this
other one instead"?

> This could be on reason to why they
> die. Are there any error messages when they stop?

No, and that's puzzling too: I would expect the runtime to complain
bitterly.

Enzo

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>
> /malte
>
>
> On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Enzo Michelangeli wrote:
>
> > I'm new to mono and CSharp, although I'm fluent in C and Java. I
recently
> > installed the Win32 version of Mono 0.26 on a Win98SE machine, and
tried
> > some simple compilations: a simple console "Hello world" program and a
> > couple of notepads, namely:
> >
> > http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/1/NotePadAM.asp
> > http://www.hewener.net/projekte.htm#sdenotepad
> >
> > All appear to work (despite the fact that the docs say that Win2K or
XP
> > are required for lack of sufficient Unicode support in '98): the three
> > binaries run as expected on Win98.
> >
> > HOWEVER, only one of the three (namely, the "Hello world" console
> > application) runs correctly on my PocketPC PDA (running Windows Mobile
> > 2003): the two GUI apps die without any warning, despite the fact that
at
> > least the second one was coded explicitely for PocketPC.
> >
> > I also tried, during compilation, to reference assemblies belonging to
the
> > "Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 1.0 SP1", with command lines such
as:
> >
> > mcs -L "C:\Program Files\Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 1.0
> > SP1\netcf.core.ppc3.ARM.cab" -L "C:\Program Files\Microsoft .NET
Compact
> > Framework 1.0 SP1\netcf.all.wce4.ARMV4.cab" -r system -r
system.drawing -r
> > system.windows.forms -o notepad.exe  notepad.cs
> >
> > However, I didn't notice any improvement.
> >
> > Any idea?
> >
> > TIA --
> >
> > Enzo
> >
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