[Mono-list] mscorlib.dll problem on Windows - yes, once again :(

[Francisco T. Martinez]

Daniel:

You are becoming a sort of celebrity among my direct contacts -- a bunch
of Mono, Linux and .NET ethusiast in Dalla/Fort Worth Metroplex.

Don't you dare stopping the great work you are doing -- PLEASE!!!!!!

Matt Gutierrez and myself are on a path to evangelize everyone we come
in contact with.  I have a full time day job were I design and architect
solutions for a company that is 97% Microsoft Windows Technology based. 
They are constantly trying to look for better and more affordable
solutions.

Matt and I fanatically believe that Mono/Linux is it!!!!!!!!!

In the months to come we will have a lot more infrastructure build to
serve our humble independent efforts, and at that point, we will be in a
better position to contribute more aggressively to all things Mono --
especially the Windows expertise part of it.

Without your contributions, it simply would not be possible to
accomplish this.

You can show Windows culture people a lot of things in a linux laptop. 
There is a lot of awe when you build something in MS Visual Studio and
later run it on a Linux box using mint to demonstrate how it "just
simply runs"!

But that is not quite the demo I do now days.  In fact I will argue that
the above mentioned makes for a good novelty that only perpetuates the
running of MS Tools.

The latest little demo I show off today is more like this:

I run the combine Mono .30 / GTK# .15 install you did on a stand alone
windows box.

I go to my laptop and fire up MonoDevelop, and build a quick GTK#
project form scratch.

I add some menu entries to show off code completion in the editor.

Build and run.

later I copy all of the three resulting *.cs files to the Windows box
and compile using mcs from the cmd.exe prompt.

I then run the resulting exe from the command line.

I get some uhh-ahh(s)! -- maybe.

But here is the best part.

I follow up with a run of sqlsharpgtk where I do a MS SQL Server query
and an invocation of "exec sp_who2".  I show the grid output and the
texpad output.

Finally, I export the resulting query to XML.  I open the xml file with
Internet Explorer.

The rest of the story goes like this.  All present -- mainly C# but some
VB .NET programmer types -- immediately ask to download the combine
Mono/GTK# installer.

Later they ask me what distro I run, followed with the infallible:

"Can you send me an email with the links to all of that stuff"
"Can you show this to my boss?"
"When will you be available for a demonstration to a larger audience?"

Now I ask you.  Do you realize just how important the work you do is?

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

Paco Martinez
http://www.mfconsulting.com/aboutus/personnel/martinf.htm 

PS
Todd, Sebastian, Lluis, Eno, Jackson, Dick, Paolo, Duncan, Miguel, Uhrs,
and Maxi thank you so much for making Matt and I feel like family on the
last Mono Developer meeting at Boston!  You guys rule!!!!!

On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 18:52, Daniel Morgan wrote:
> by the way, i just wanted you to know
> I DO NOT GET PAID TO PUT UP WITH THIS CRAP FOR YOU.  It would be different
> if you PAID for Mono and Ximian PAID me for developing Mono.  However, this
> is not the case.
> 
> Have some fucking respect for people!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mono-list-admin@lists.ximian.com
> [mailto:mono-list-admin@lists.ximian.com]On Behalf Of Maciek
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 7:55 AM
> To: mono-list@lists.ximian.com
> Subject: [Mono-list] mscorlib.dll problem on Windows - yes, once again
> :(
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I've just installed the latest Mono 0.30 for Windows (using the
> installer), and while previous releases (e.g. 0.28) worked fine for me,
> this one is a major problem.
> 
> Whenever I launch mint or mono to execute an assembly, it comes up with
> the following error:
> 
> The assembly mscorlib.dll was not found or could not be loaded.
> It should have been installed in the
> `e:/cygwin/home/danmorg/mono/install/lib' directory.
> 
> I've read BugID 50085. I have the PATH set to C:\Program
> Files\Mono-0.30\bin and C:\Program Files\Mono-0.30\lib . MONO_PATH is
> set to C:\Program Files\Mono-0.30\lib and MONO_CFG_DIR to C:\Program
> Files\Mono-0.30\etc\mono
> 
> All DLLs, including mscorlib.dll are present in 'lib' directory, I've
> also copied the DLLs to 'bin' just in case, but the error message remains.
> 
> Does it mean I have to install Mono into a new partition E: ? That is,
> until I compile Mono myself, I plan to do that this weekend. However, I
> wouldn't expect my users to do the same :(
> 
> Is there a quick workaround not requiring complete recompilation?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Maciek Plewa
> 
> PS. This is a minor thing, but I thought I should mention it. The
> msvcr70.dll was not present on my computer (I have mscvr71.dll :), so I
> had to download it from the net and put it in Mono/bin directory. It
> seems this release of Mono for Windows wasn't tested by anyone else than
> the author (danmorg) himself.
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