[Mono-list] Mono-list Digest, Vol 91, Issue 29

[jeff clausius]

Also, just tried this suggestion against the 3.0.1 Mono release.  This
presents a whole different set of problems:

Unhandled Exception:
System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was thrown by the type
initializer for System.Windows.Forms.XplatUI --->
System.DllNotFoundException: libX11.dylib
  at (wrapper managed-to-native)
System.Windows.Forms.XplatUIX11:XInitThreads ()
  at System.Windows.Forms.XplatUIX11..ctor () [0x00000] in <filename
unknown>:0
  at System.Windows.Forms.XplatUIX11.GetInstance () [0x00000] in
<filename unknown>:0
  at System.Windows.Forms.XplatUI..cctor () [0x00000] in <filename
unknown>:0
  --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
  at System.Windows.Forms.Application.EnableVisualStyles () [0x00000] in
<filename unknown>:0
  at WindowsFormsApplicationMono1.Program.Main () [0x00000] in <filename
unknown>:0
[ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.TypeInitializationException:
An exception was thrown by the type initializer for
System.Windows.Forms.XplatUI ---> System.DllNotFoundException: libX11.dylib
  at (wrapper managed-to-native)
System.Windows.Forms.XplatUIX11:XInitThreads ()
  at System.Windows.Forms.XplatUIX11..ctor () [0x00000] in <filename
unknown>:0
  at System.Windows.Forms.XplatUIX11.GetInstance () [0x00000] in
<filename unknown>:0
  at System.Windows.Forms.XplatUI..cctor () [0x00000] in <filename
unknown>:0
  --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
  at System.Windows.Forms.Application.EnableVisualStyles () [0x00000] in
<filename unknown>:0
  at WindowsFormsApplicationMono1.Program.Main () [0x00000] in <filename
unknown>:0

I will be looking into ways around the "libX11.dylib" issue.  Symlink
perhaps?

Jeff

On 11/28/2012 6:00 AM, mono-list-request at lists.ximian.com wrote:
> WinForms works the worst on Mac. Although I don't have a Mac, I recommend the
> users of my WinForms app to run their app this way, and it seems to work
> fine for them: "MONO_MWF_MAC_FORCE_X11=1 mono yourapp.exe"
> That makes it so it runs the app using the X11 driver rather than the Mac
> (Carbon) one, which means the app should work as well as on Linux. The only
> problem is that it requires an X11 server to be installed on the Mac.