[Mono-list] Cross platform app on usb drive

[Dmitry Kostenko]

I have tried something similar, but on Windows only. It worked.
For quick testing you can make use of SUBST'ed drives in Windows.
e.g. You create a drive as
> mkdir D:\env1
> subst S: D:\env
and install Mono onto it.
Now you can 'hide' installed mono by 
> Subst S: /D

Let's pretend you make a distribution onto drive Z:
You clean drive Z:
Install mono into Z:\mono
Fix the .BAT files and remove all references to Z: from them.
Now mono works on Z: only by starting \Mono\mono
Copy you application into Z:\YourApp
Put .bat file into root:
@cd \YouApp
@\mono\mono YouApp.exe

To test whether installation is drive-independent (on Windows) you can
use different substed drive letters.

Under Linux it should be easy too: 
Let's pretend, that your mountpoint it /mnt/flash (which is the same as
Z:\ under Windows).
Package mono-linux into /mnt/flash/mono-linux.
Put startup .sh script into /mnt/flash 
#!/bin/sh

# WD is rooted path to working directory/mount point
WD=`basename $0`
if [ -z "$WD" ] ; then WD=`which $0`; fi
if [ "$WD" = "./" ]; then WD=$PWD; fi

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$WD/mono-linux/lib
export MONO_PATH=$WD/mono-linux/lib:$WD/mono-linux/lib/mono/1.0:
$WD/mono-linux/lib/mono/gtk-sharp

$WD/mono-linux/bin/mono $WD/YourApp/YourApp.exe $*