[Mono-winforms-list] Re: Mono-winforms-list Digest, Vol 2, Issue 6

[Peter Dennis Bartok]

David,

Good suggestion. Alternatively, the line can be completely removed if the 
dev package is installed. Then it will simply try to load libX11.so.

Cheers,
  peter


-----Original Message-----
From: "David Cullen" <dcullen at intergate.com>
To: <mono-winforms-list at lists.ximian.com>
Date: 08 June, 2005 12:03
Subject: [Mono-winforms-list] Re: Mono-winforms-list Digest, Vol 2, Issue 6


>Dear Paul,
>
>mono-winforms-list-request at lists.ximian.com wrote:
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 15:40:20 +0100
>> From: Paul Johnson <paul at all-the-johnsons.co.uk>
>> Subject: [Mono-winforms-list] An annoying problem
>> To: winforms <mono-winforms-list at lists.ximian.com>
>> Message-ID: <1118241620.5111.18.camel at localhost.localdomain>
>> Content-Type: text/plain
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Whenever I try to run a program compiled against MWF, I keep getting the
>> same error
>>
>> Unhandled Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: An exception
>> was thrown by the initializer for System.Windows.Forms.XplatUI --->
>> System.DllNotFoundException: libX11.so.6.2
>>
>> I know this has come up before and from what I remember when Miguel
>> flagged it up was that there was a problem within XplatUI.
>>
>> Is there a work around or will XplatUI be getting fixed sometime in the
>> not too distant future?
>>
>> TTFN
>>
>> Paul
>
>Look in your /prefix/etc/mono for config where "prefix" is your root
>prefix for you mono install.  There will be a file named config.  Change
>the line saying
>
>         <dllmap dll="libX11" target="libX11.so.6.2">
>
>to
>
>         <dllmap dll="libX11" target="/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.2">
>
>or wherever your actual libX11.so.6.2 is.
>
>--
>David
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