[Mono-winforms-list] Running a MWF app on solaris

[pablosantosluac at terra.es]

And now Solaris 10:

http://codicesoftware.blogspot.com/2008/12/plastic-on-solaris-10.html

Who said MWF was not multi-platform??? >-|

pablo

pablosantosluac at terra.es escribió:
> Hi there,
>
> After compiling Mono on OpenSolaris I was able to run Plastic on it... 
> you can watch it in action in the following screencast:
>
> http://codicesoftware.blogspot.com/2008/12/opensolaris-and-mwf.html
>
> Linux, MacOS, Solaris... once we've a debugger on MacOS and Solaris I 
> bet Mono will become the strongest multi-platform framework out there... 
> :-) It's really, really good to see what can be achieved!
>
> pablo
>
> pablosantosluac at terra.es escribió:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to run a sample winforms app (just one form, the default app 
>> created by the vstudio wizard) on Solaris SPARC.
>>
>> My mono is 2.0.1 as compiled by Steffen (in CC) -> basically a build on 
>> a solaris box.
>>
>> That's what I get:
>>
>> bash-3.00$ export MONO_THEME=nice
>> bash-3.00$ mono hello.exe
>> GLib: Cannot convert message: Conversion from character set 'UTF-8' to 
>> '646' is not supported
>>
>> Unhandled Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: An exception 
>> was thrown by the type initializer for System.Windows.Forms.ThemeEngine 
>> ---> System.ArgumentException: The requested FontFamily could not be 
>> found [GDI+ status: FontFamilyNotFound]
>>    at System.Drawing.GDIPlus.CheckStatus (Status status) [0x00000]
>>    at System.Drawing.FontFamily..ctor (GenericFontFamilies 
>> genericFamily) [0x00000]
>>    at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) 
>> System.Drawing.FontFamily:.ctor (System.Drawing.Text.GenericFontFamilies)
>>    at System.Drawing.FontFamily.get_GenericSansSerif () [0x00000]
>>    at System.Windows.Forms.Theme..ctor () [0x00000]
>>    at System.Windows.Forms.ThemeWin32Classic..ctor () [0x00000]
>>    at System.Windows.Forms.ThemeEngine..cctor () [0x00000]
>>    --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
>>    at 
>> System.Windows.Forms.SystemInformation.get_MenuAccessKeysUnderlined () 
>> [0x00000]
>>    at System.Windows.Forms.Control..ctor () [0x00000]
>>    at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl..ctor () [0x00000]
>>    at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl..ctor () [0x00000]
>>    at System.Windows.Forms.Form..ctor () [0x00000]
>>    at hello.Form1..ctor () [0x00000]
>>    at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) hello.Form1:.ctor ()
>>    at hello.Form1.Main () [0x00000]
>>
>>
>> I tried with other mono-themes but I get the same result
>>
>>
>> Then, instead of a dummy app I'm trying to run the Plastic SCM GUI 
>> client, and it stops at:
>>
>> ENTER:  (wrapper managed-to -native) System.Windows.Forms.X11Desktop 
>> Colors:gtk _init_check(intptr, intptr)(0, 0,)
>>
>> It simply stops, no erros.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> pablo
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