[Mono-list] P/Invoke, Mono, .NET and Windows XP funny platform

Jeroen Frijters jeroen at sumatra.nl
Fri Jun 10 08:47:15 EDT 2005


Jonathan Pryor wrote:
> Your fundamental problem is that you're targeting Windows XP.
> 
> The real explanation is that Win32 is broken when it comes to 
> supporting multiple different versions of the "same" library.
> Absolutely, fundamentally, *broken*.  More to the point, it
> doesn't support this AT ALL -- you can only have ONE version
> of any given library in use at any point in time.

I don't know if this is relevant to the discussion but, AFAIK, since WinXP there is support for versioning libraries. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sbscs/setup/isolated_applications_and_side_by_side_assemblies_start_page.asp

Regards,
Jeroen


More information about the Mono-list mailing list