[Mono-winforms-list] Problems with Mac OSX (Intel), Mono 1.1.16.1 and gdiplus

[Susan Mackay]

Hi,

I've installed the latest Intel package for Mono (1.1.16.1) for the Max OSX
and I'm trying to 'start small' learning Mono (I've come from a Windows
/Visual Studio /C# environment) and I've come across a problem.

My test code is trivial - basically a single call to
System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show(). I complies (gmcs) and runs under
mono until it tries to load the gdiplus.dll library - which it can't find.

I've used the MONO_LOG_LEVEL="debug" and MONO_LOG_MASK="asm,dll" environment
variables, and I can see mono (dlopen actually) trying all sorts of
variations of gdiplus.dll (prefixed with "./" and/or "lib", suffixed with
and without the ".dll" by ".so").

The only gdiplus files on my computer are in
/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/1.1.16.1/lib/libgdiplus.dylib
(and ".a" and ".la" suffixes).

What I don't see is any combination of ".dll" and ".so" suffixes.

Is this a known problem with my configuration?

Is there some way to tell the mono environment to include a check for the
.dylib" suffix?

Thanks

Susan