[Mono-list] Why is mono so difficult????

[Christoph Eisenmann]

Hallo,

a few days ago, i downloaded mono and mcs from your homepage. Compiling and 
Linking
was no joy (missing files like bytefx.snk) But, OK fixed it. The mono seems 
to work.
OK, so I would like to run a small test program. Nothing exiting. A form 
with
a button which pops up a message box "Good By Cruel World!"

I am aware that this task is not so easy. Sure  how can mono handle 
system.windows.forms?
You need windows to do that, I do not have windows, but I got wine. (At home 
on my
computer I got only Linux, at work I got all this $Microsoft, but that's in 
Bangkok)
So I found a directory in mcs /mcs/class/System.Windows.Forms. Oh, and it 
got a README.
I always read this kind of files. README says start wine by calling 
monostub.exe.so.That
makes sense, try to embed mono into an win32 executable. Needless to say I 
can not
find monostub.exe.so. But I found a WINELib directory which contains 
monostub.c
The README says just enter "make" in the WINELib, which does not make too 
much sense
because thw WINELib directory does not contain any Makefile. Ok, I thought 
not such
a big deal, just run winemaker on the monostub.c which sure also fails 
because I can just
compile, but not link undefined reference 'mono_jit_init' Sure now I try
to find out in which library contains this function. Or does it make sense 
anymore?
I mean. After I find this out, the next problem will accure for sure. I 
guess it will be
a neverending story!!! Downloading things here takes forever. I am in 
Vietiane just now, one
of the poorest countries on gods earth, we do not have good Internet, every 
download is
a pain... OK I am thinking about downloading an rpm instead of source. :-(

I am just a windows programmer. Making my living working as an ordinary 
Visual Basic, VB.NET
programmer in a pharma company. Sure I like the idea to have .NET on linux. 
Sure I would like to run my programs on linux. Sure I would like to get 
involved in your project.

But, it seems what nothing really works. Is it so hard to include a makefile 
a configure or
something for monostub.c. Is it so hard to write some help for your mono_ 
functions,
For example where to find the necessary libs?

I am not a guy who complains fast. For two days I am trying to get as much 
as possible
information about mono!

A little bit very disappointed!!!

Sincerly

Chris

Happy new Year anyway Happy 2547 (We are a little bit ahead of time here 
:-))

Vietiane, People Democratic Republic of Laos
Bangkok, Kingdom of Thailand

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