[Mono-list] Mono windows

[Rob.Tillie@Student.tUL.EDU]

I agree totally with you but it's only a problem when building the thing.
Installing from setups / red carpet works like a charm.
I think this is the problem in general with makefiles. We really should have
something better, but this would be a lot of work.
For example, the thing shouldn't say "libgc 2.0.0.0 < 2.1.1.1, I do not like
it, ERROR, I do not install for you"...
In this new era it should be something like: "Dude, you didn't have the
correct version of libgc, I installed a newer one for you my master".
Ultimatly, this could be possible with a MSBuild-like clone.

Eventually, we'll get there :).

Greetz,
-- Rob.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Molenda, Mark P [mailto:mark.molenda@eds.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 4:20 PM
> To: 'mono-list@lists.ximian.com'
> Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Mono windows
> 
> Joe,
>   You are not alone.  Even on stock builds of Linux there are many
> conflicts
> and problems.  If you load anything outside of the base product.  Your
> suggestion of putting the working dll's in a zip or installer would work
> the
> same as my suggestion to move all the libraries in one directory on Linux
> and set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the appropriate place to pick everything up.
> This would allow users to work with little or no effort.  Now I'm sure
> someone will flame me for this but no one including the originator of the
> project has explained to me why a 1.0 product does not load with libraries
> and environments of supported distributions (i.e. Suse , RedHat etc.)
> without major hassles.  It seems there is a lot of work to do on getting
> shrink wrapped versions
> Of major distributions ( Windows XP is one ) to work with the full mono.
> 
> 
> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 12:30:39 +0200
> Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Mono windows
> From: Joe Ante <joe@uti.is>
> To: MONO <mono-list@lists.ximian.com>
> 
> HI,
> 
> After trying to build mono on windows for 2 days using the help of a unix
> guy, it still doesn=B9t work.
> I tried everything from the windows build scripts to the
> www.nullenvoid.com/wiki intro how to manually compile mono. To just trying
> to figure out the error msgs myself.
> I am getting problems like GCC hanging in monoburg.c, but mostly just
> pkgconfig not finding libraries.
> 
> I am desperate now.
> Does anyone have a built mono install which includes the dll's and
> librarie=
> s needed for embedding mono and wants to send it over?
> 
> Or what if someone smart would just put the dll's into the windows
> installer, wouldn=B9t that be like real cute.
> 
> Joachim Ante
> 
> 
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