[Mono-list] Anyone ever tried to run NAnt on mono on Windows?

[Gert Driesen]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mono-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com 
> [mailto:mono-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Atsushi Eno
> Sent: vrijdag 2 december 2005 8:36
> To: Gert Driesen
> Cc: 'mono-list mailing list'
> Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Anyone ever tried to run NAnt on 
> mono on Windows?
> 
> Hi Gert,
> 
> Gert Driesen wrote:
> > Hi Atsushi
> > 
> > Not sure what the effect of that registry bug was ,but the 
> Mono 1.1.9.2
> > release was working just fine here for running a version of 
> NAnt built using
> > .NET 1.1.  However its failing badly attempting to run NAnt 
> built using .NET
> > 2.0:
> > 
> > ** ERROR **: Can't find custom attr constructor image: 
> <path to NAnt.exe>
> > mtoken: 0x0a000012
> > 
> > Do you actually installed Mono using a Windows installer, 
> or built it from
> > source ?
> 
> I was trying to build nant from source in cvs (also failed from
> 0.85rc3 source archive), by doing "make".
> 
> > Up until now, NAnt needed the registry key created by the 
> Mono installer to
> > determine 
> > 
> > a) whether Mono was actually installed
> > b) what the installation directory was
> > c) what version was actually installed
> > 
> > On Linux, we use pkg-config for this purpose.
> > 
> > I'll see if I can use pkg-config for this purpose on 
> Windows too (for those
> > building Mono from source in cygwin). Should not be that hard.
> 
> Thanks, that would be nice.

Support for this is now in cvs. Let me know if you notice any problems with
it.

Gert