[Mono-winforms-list] RE: [Mono-list] Windows.Forms

[Aleksey Ryabchuk]

Hello !

WinForms does not need Wine to work on Win32 :-) 
May be you set SFW = 1 before running application ?
If so you don't need to do it. You will get a few
warnings about missing libxxx.dll.so, but that's ok.
You also need the latest runtime from CVS, there were
some fixed made regarding calling conventions
recenlty.

Regards
Aleksey

--- Urs Muff <umuff@quark.com> wrote:
> How come Windows.Forms does not work on Win32
> without Wine?  
> That does not really make sense to me.  
> Isn't Wine supposed to emulate Win32?
> Can't the assembly detect what OS its running and
> the either use Wine, or
> just directly use the kernel?  
> Why are the DLL-names hard coded using libxxx.dll.so
> naming conventions
> [since I get an error message that libxxx.dll.so.dll
> is missing]?  
> Isn't that platform specific and a general issue for
> any share
> library/PInvoke and should only use xxx, and then
> depending on the platform
> it gets expanded to libxxx.dll.so on Unix [actually
> why not libxxx.so, since
> java does that too], or to xxx.dll on Win32.
> 
> I guess those might be just stupid questions, but to
> me the design choices
> are not apparent and/or transparent...
> 
> - URS C. MUFF
> SOFTWARE ARCHITECT	- RESEARCH LAB
> QUARK INC.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Philip Van Hoof
> [mailto:spamfrommailing@freax.org]
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 8:01 PM
> > To: mono-list@ximian.com; Mono Winforms
> > 
> > 
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > After a lot of trying and trying .. I got the
> System.Windows.Forms using
> > libWine working.
> > 
> > Now that it works .. you can find the prove that a
> newbie Mono developer
> > can get these wine patches working (after trying
> for an hour or two)
> > here : http://www.freax.be/MyFirstSWFOnMono.png 
> ;-)
> > 
> > tadaaa!!
> > 
> > Note that my test.cs-file was created using VS.NET
> (2003). It is a
> > standard Windows Forms application with no extra
> components added.
> > 
> > I compiled it with something like ..
> > 
> > mcs test.cs /r:System.Windows.Forms.dll
> /r:System.Drawing.dll
> > /r:System.Data.dll
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Some other problems that I ran into :
> > 
> > 1) You must read the file
> wine-shared-20030519/wine/README, not just the
> > instructions on the website ! Those online
> instructions will install a
> > wine-binary. This is 'not' what you need in order
> to get
> > System.Windows.Forms working. (Thanks to Miguel
> who explained this to me
> > on IRC, hehe -I should read before doing things, I
> know-)
> > 
> > 2) It does not hurt if you did installed it the
> wrong way first (except
> > that now your current wine installation has been
> overwritten, hehe
> > -great, my KaZaaLite does not work anymore-). But
> then make sure that
> > you distclean/clean the patched wine source before
> recompiling using
> > "make wine-shared". Else the -DMONO wont be
> compiled in each library.
> > (it took me 45 minutes to figure out why it was
> not working and why
> > running "mono test.exe" was showing me the "how to
> use"-help of wine
> > after it initialized System.Windows.Forms. Well
> not cleaning that
> > sourcetree was the reason).
> > 
> > 3) I had to make a symlink from libwinnt.dll.so to
> libntdll.dll.so. For
> > some reason the build created libwinnt.dll.so in
> stead of
> > libntdll.dll.so which is the library that Mono
> will load once it
> > detected that System.Windows.Forms will be used.
> > 
> > ln -s /usr/lib/libwinnt.dll.so
> /usr/lib/libntdll.dll.so
> > 
> > 
> > Maybe that symlink is totally wrong .. well, here,
> it does work this
> > way...
> > 
> > 4) I also had to rebuild mono and mcs from scratch
> and from CVS. Yes
> > that means rebuilding your corlib.dll too. I guess
> most of you guys know
> > how to build mcs. If not try something like this :
> > 
> > * Install mono (and mono-devel) from RPM or using
> apt-get
> > 
> > * export
>
CVSROOT=':pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.go-mono.com:/mono'
> && cvs
> > -z3 co mono mcs && cd mcs && make -f makefile.gnu
> ; cd ../mono &&
> > ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr && make && make install
> && cd ../mcs && cp
> > class/lib/corlib.dll /usr/lib ; make -f
> makefile.gnu && make -f
> > makefile.gnu install prefix=/usr
> > 
> > 
> > 5) Back to the wine-sources: In stead of running
> "./configure" I had to
> > use "./configure --prefix=/usr" (which is also the
> prefix that I used to
> > install mono on my development desktop-computer).
> This way all
> > .dll.so-files are installed in /usr/lib/ in stead
> of /usr/local/lib/.
> > Don't worry about your wine-installation .. the
> fine guys at openlinksw
> > have renamed the files.
> > 
> > 6) Run "export SWF=1" before starting an
> application (or put it in your
> > profile or startup-scripts)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Okay, have fun :)
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > Philip Van Hoof a.k.a. freax
> > me at freax dot org
> > http://www.freax.be -- http://www.freax.eu.org --
> http://www.freax.org
> > 
> > 
> > 
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