[Mono-osx] Re: Mono 1.1.10 + MacOS

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> > > I downloaded the latest release and then attempted to test my program,
> > > which uses Windows Forms, but it does not work! It starts to launch and
> > > then it simply exits. This same code would compile and run under 1.1.9,
> > > but some of the Windows controls did not work as well as they should.
> > 
> > My experience is similar to yours. A Windows.Forms application that mostly
> > worked in a previous version of Mono now doesn't work at all with Mono
> > 1.1.10.
> 
> The problem is that Cairo 1.0 no longer builds on OSX because it
> requires a newer version of FreeType to be installed.
> 
> I might end up including our own version of FreeType to make it work.

Actually, I just checked this: I did ship FreeType and GDI+ on this
release of Mono.

So the issue is not this.