[Mono-list] Can Mono Assembly and Mono Framework be integrated as one package?

[Chris Howie]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Akash Kava<ackava at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been looking for help on mono, and I understand that mono application
> requires mono framework installed as well.
>
> However is it possible to integrate mono assembly and mono framework
> packaged in such a way that user can directly start running it. For example,
> is it possible to create one big EXE for windows and one APP file for mac
> which users can start running without doing any configuration or any
> download steps, And it can run as inside a virtual mono framework which does
> not conflict with if any mono framework on same machine is installed or not.

The answer is yes, but you'll likely have to figure this out on your
own.  Also, note that if I found some app that did the same thing, and
did not make changes to the Mono runtime to warrant it, I would
probably not use it.  If you are distributing an unmodified version of
mono alongside your app then you are wasting disk space on your target
machines.  The mono framework is designed to be shared by multiple
applications without problems, so there is generally no need to do
this.

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