[Mono-winforms-list] running a win32 winforms app

[Ryan Underwood]

Hi,

I have this silly win32-built .net windows.forms application (setup.exe)
which is a menu frontend to a program that a client uses.  I am trying
to get it to run under mono.  I have installed the debian unstable
versions of mono 0.24 packages, and I try to execute the program like:
$ mono setup.exe

This complains about tons of missing libuser32.dll.so and such.
Searching the mailing lists indicated that I needed to add some lines to
/etc/mono/config:

<dllmap dll="user32.dll" target="user32.dll.so" />
<dllmap dll="kernel32.dll" target="kernel32.dll.so" />
<dllmap dll="gdi32.dll" target="gdi32.dll.so" />
<dllmap dll="shell32.dll" target="shell32.dll.so" />
<dllmap dll="comctl32.dll" target="comctl32.dll.so" />

But afterwards, instead of looking for e.g. user32.dll.so as would make
sense, it looks for libuser32.dll.so.so instead.  Even more wrong! :)

So, I make symbolic links in /usr/lib/wine with lib*.dll.so pointing to
*.dll.so, and export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/wine, and run mono.  Then,
it gives no dll errors but immediately gives a null exception and stops,
until I press Ctrl-C.

So, anyone have any ideas about the proper procedure to follow or where
I goofed up? :)

Thanks,
-- 
Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>, icq=10317253