[Mono-list] Re lated to COM support by mono

[Markus Ewald]

On 06.10.2009 08:03, Bharti Mishra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have migrated .net application onto linux machine through mono2.4.2.
> my appliction is using COM component. As mono material, mono doesn't support
> COM. so we commented out that portion.
> I would like to know, does mono provide any solution for that.
> or new version of mono is supporting COM component?
>
> pls let me know, can we not migrate .net application onto linux platform
> using COM code.
>    
COM is native code, eg. machine code that accesses OS-specific functions 
(eg. from the Win32 API). This means to run COM controls, you'd have to 
emulate the entire Windows API, which is way outside the scope of Mono.

If you want to run COM components on your Linux system, check out the 
Wine project.

I don't know whether you can install .NET on Wine or if it's possible to 
access a COM control using the Wine functions from within Mono, though. 
Maybe someone else on the list knows this?

-Markus-