[mono-vb] Using Mono to port to Mac Os X

Rolf Bjarne Kvinge rolflists at ya.com
Mon Nov 10 04:44:29 EST 2008


Hi,
 
> 
> Hi, everyone talks about porting from Windows to linux using mono
> basic, but, is it possible from Windows to MacOSX?
> 
> Here, at school, we use Visual Studio 2008 under Windows XP (at home, I
> prefeer SharpDevelop), and I'm doing some research before starting with
> a little cross-plattform project (it is a pretty simple application) that
> needs to work under these two OS'es.
> 

The application should run fine on MacOSX (develop on Windows, copy binaries
to MacOSX and execute).

However if you want to compile on MacOSX you can't use any new features in
VB9 (and there are quite a few of them, google can help you list them), the
compiler can't handle them yet.

Rolf




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