[MonoDevelop] Re: [Mono-list] MonoDevelop on Mac OS X

[John Luke]

Benjamin Reed wrote:

> (pet peeve, but is there a reason for multiple lists if everything 
> gets cross-posted anyways?  =)
>
> Attila Balogh wrote:
>
>> hello all,
>>
>> finally i was able to run monodevelop 0.4 on my mac (it's way more 
>> stable and mature then the 0.3 build), if anyone's interested, here's 
>> how i did it:
>> http://www.edu-net.hu/dottext/d0lphin/posts/210.aspx
>
>
> Spiffy
>
> I've been working on updating the fink mono packages to beta2, most 
> everything is working but for some reason, monodevelop doesn't work, 
> it bombs with this:
>
> ---(snip!)---
> Loading error, please reinstall :
> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: Cannot find the specified file
> in <0x0068c> System.Diagnostics.Process:Start_common 
> (System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo,System.Diagnostics.Process)
> in <0x0002c> System.Diagnostics.Process:Start ()
> in <0x0008c> (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) 
> System.Diagnostics.Process:Start ()
> in <0x0010c> 
> MonoDevelop.Services.SystemAssemblyService:GetVariableFromPkgConfig 
> (string,string)
> in <0x00114> MonoDevelop.Services.SystemAssemblyService:ProcessPiece 
> (string,string)
> in <0x003ac> 
> MonoDevelop.Services.SystemAssemblyService:GetAssembliesWithLibInfo 
> (string,string)
> in <0x00194> MonoDevelop.Services.SystemAssemblyService:ParsePCFile 
> (string)
> in <0x00458> 
> MonoDevelop.Services.SystemAssemblyService:InitializeService ()
> in <0x002ec> 
> MonoDevelop.Core.Services.ServiceManager:InitializeServicesSubsystem 
> (string)
> in <0x00648> MonoDevelop.SharpDevelopMain:Main (string[])
> ---(snip!)---
>
This looks like we are trying to run pkg-config via Process.Start (), 
but it is not found in your path.
If it is, can you run with --debug so we can get line numbers in the 
stack trace?