[Mono-list] System.Drawing status?

[Chris Turchin]

Hello,

last week I sat down and got cairo, libgdiplus and libpixman running
from cvs in the hopes that it would make my simple system.drawing test
work. this seems to have not been enough. i just wanted to resize a jpeg
and am getting the following error:

[chris@arcteryx test]$ mono s.d.exe /data/images/IMG_0044.JPG 466
/tmp/out.jpg
 
Unhandled Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: An exception
was thrown by the type initializer for System.Drawing.GDIPlus --->
System.NullReferenceException: A null value was found where an object
instance was required.
in (unmanaged) (wrapper managed-to-native)
System.Drawing.GDIPlus:GdiplusStartup
(ulong&,System.Drawing.GdiplusStartupInput&,System.Drawing.GdiplusStartupOutput&)
in <0x00004> (wrapper managed-to-native)
System.Drawing.GDIPlus:GdiplusStartup
(ulong&,System.Drawing.GdiplusStartupInput&,System.Drawing.GdiplusStartupOutput&)in <0x00068> System.Drawing.GDIPlus:.cctor ()
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
 
in (unmanaged) System.Drawing.GDIPlus:GdipLoadImageFromFile
(string,intptr&)
in <0x00020> System.Drawing.Bitmap:InitFromFile (string)
in <0x00056> (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check)
System.Drawing.Bitmap:InitFromFile (string)
in <0x0001c> System.Drawing.Bitmap:.ctor (string,bool)
in <0x00012> System.Drawing.Bitmap:.ctor (string)
in <0x00056> (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check)
System.Drawing.Bitmap:.ctor (string)
in <0x00020> System.Drawing.Image:FromFile (string)
in <0x00085> sizer.TestSystemDrawing:GenerateImage
(string,string,string)
in <0x00043> sizer.TestSystemDrawing:Main (string[])
 
is this still to  be expected from system.drawing in its current state
or have I still got something misconfigured (or am I missing something)?

thanks & best regards,

--chris

ps: the line where it breaks (though perhaps clear from exception): 

img = System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(fileName);