[Mono-list] Mono & ModBus

[Andreas Färber]

Am 14.05.2008 um 14:51 schrieb Panoramix:

>
>> Do yu start with Mono/MD, because you plane to work under linux or  
>> you
>> will work under Windows ?
>> The choice your made, NModbus, work with some windows dll (ex :
>> NModbus\source\tools\jamod), also once again it's a fully and  
>> complete
>> Modbus library, so complex, ......:)
>> This library can be used with a really big project, for example to
>> replace "Intouch" from "Wonderware" ...
>> But if your application is "basic" , yu should have a look at modbus
>> documentation.
>
> I'm working (playing for the moment) on Ubuntu 8.04 Linux with Mono  
> and
> Mono-Develop 1.0.
> My problem is that I don't know how to install a library on Mono  
> (because I
> don't know Mono and MonoDevelop).
> Until now I have used other languages like :
> PHP with framework as P4a (http://p4a.crealabsfoundation.org/)
> Lazarus (Delphy on linux http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/)
> Gambas (VB on Linux http://gambas.sourceforge.net/).
>
> But at the first impact with Mono and MonoDevelop I was captured by  
> her
> beauty, I like it.
> For the moment I'll like try NModbus with Mono but not to produce
> proprietary software but only to learn.

You don't need to install the library anywhere then, just place it  
inside your working directory and add a local reference to it. If the  
downloaded software does not advise you to install it into the GAC,  
it's probably not a good idea to put it there.

http://www.mono-project.com/Assemblies_and_the_GAC#What_Should_Be_Installed_to_the_GAC

To find out whether you can use the downloaded software, you might  
want to try the MoMA tool to check for dependencies on native Windows  
libraries.

HTH,
Andreas