[Mono-winforms-list] Winforms on OSX

[Jonathan Pobst]

I think it has to be installed to run winforms apps because we still use 
a few pieces out of it.  However, you do not need to actually start an 
X11 terminal window to run apps.  Just having it installed is enough.

Jonathan

FrankyDM wrote:
> Thanks for that info Jonathan.
> 
> I'm a bit puzzled now, as to why the current 2.0 OSX download page still
> says:
> 
> "Gtk# and System.Windows.Forms applications require X11. Installing on a
> machine without X11 installed will result in errors during install, and
> these components will not function correctly."
> 
> Does this mean that only the installer requires X11?
> 
> Thanks
> Franky
> 
> 
> Jonathan Pobst wrote:
>> The old non-native driver required you to install X11 and run your 
>> application using X11.  The native driver uses native OSX libraries and 
>> does not require you to run X11.
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>