[Mono-list] Missing a trick

[Peter Dennis Bartok]

It would seem that your gdiplus was not compiled with support for all image 
formats.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: "Gavin Hamill" <gdh at acentral.co.uk>
To: <mono-list at lists.ximian.com>
Date: 07 July, 2005 18:18
Subject: [Mono-list] Missing a trick


>OK, I must be missing something, but I don't know what. I have Mono 1.1.7 
>on
>Ubuntu and am trying to run very simple Windows.Forms apps...
>
>For good measure, I have also "gacutil -u" the Windows.Forms.dll and 
>'gacutil
>-i' the latest one with the same result:
>
>e.g. http://svn.myrealbox.com/viewcvs/trunk/winforms/hello/swf-hello.cs
>
>gdh at plip:~/net$ mcs
>swf-hello.cs  /r:System.Windows.Forms /r:System.Drawing /r:System.Data
>gdh at plip:~/net$ mono swf-hello.exe
>Mono System.Windows.Forms Assembly [Revision: 44786; built: 2005/5/25
>22:34:45]
>
>Unhandled Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was
>thrown by the type initializer for System.Windows.Forms.XplatUI --->
>System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by 
>the
>target of an invocation. ---> System.NotSupportedException: Either image
>format is unknown or you don't have the required libraries for this format.
>in <0x0014a> System.Drawing.GDIPlus:CheckStatus (Status status)
>in <0x000ca> System.Drawing.Image:InitFromStream (System.IO.Stream stream)
>in (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) System.Drawing.Image:InitFromStream
>(System.IO.Stream)
>in <0x00104> System.Drawing.Bitmap:.ctor
>(System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext
>context)
>in <0x00000> <unknown method>
>in (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Reflection.MonoCMethod:InternalInvoke
>(object,object[])
>in <0x0006f> System.Reflection.MonoCMethod:Invoke (System.Object obj,
>BindingFlags invokeAttr, System.Reflection.Binder binder, System.Object[]
>parameters, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)--- End of inner
>exception stack trace ---
>
>in <0x00104> System.Reflection.MonoCMethod:Invoke (System.Object obj,
>BindingFlags invokeAttr, System.Reflection.Binder binder, System.Object[]
>parameters, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
>in <0x00017> System.Reflection.MethodBase:Invoke (System.Object obj,
>System.Object[] parameters)
>
>How can I fix this and run this superficial application?
>
>Cheers,
>Gavin.
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