[MonoDevelop] MonoDevelop on Windows?

[Zac Bowling]

Well MD is really heading in a different direction since the fork of the
SD code tree. MD is also more favorable then SD for lot of reasons in my
opinion. Also having an identical environment on both platforms just
makes it easier to anyone wanting to write additions to MD.=20

I keep emailing the list and it seems like no one reads my messages. :-)
I have gtksourceview ported. I ported gecko# to win32 (hard dependency)
and other things to win32. Existing versions of libgnomeui elements that
haven't been ported have some mono gtk versions.  The biggest issue is
VFS which I already have some win32 apis to get around. I've been
through  this many many times :-). http://www.polystimulus.com/ and
http://monodevelop.zacbowling.com/ both have some of my work on the
subject. I have 90% of it built and working. I need to write a VFS work
around for reading the lang attributes from the xml based lang files for
gtksourceview (VFS does it nicely). I need to write a work around for
VTE stuff. I need a to write a work around for some of the path things.
Past that it should almost work.=20

Hope that helps.

Zac Bowling



On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 18:30 -0300, Andr=C3=A9s Villanueva wrote:
> Actually (correct me if I'm wrong), I believe MonoDevelop was born as
> a port from SharpDevelop. Besides SharpDevelop lets you choose the
> platform you are going to work with and the compiler (meaning mono /
> ms.net and mcs / csc)
> So, I don't think porting MD would be of much use...=20
> If you want to work on windows use SD, and if you wan't to work on
> linux use MD.
>=20
> Andr=C3=A9s=20
>=20
> aedwards@aspire.ws wrote:=20
> > Hey guys.... I really like the initiatives you guys are taking with .NE=
T on linux.  I wish more programmers understood good .NET was and how much =
it would help Linux compete in the open market.  I was wondering if you guy=
s were going to do a port to make monodevelop run on both sides, windows an=
d linux.  It would be a dream to build .NET software on both sides and just=
 have them compile on linux.
> >=20
> > Allan
> >=20
> >=20
> > ----- Original message -----
> > From: "John Luke" <john.luke@gmail.com>
> > Date: 3/30/2005 2:53:30 PM
> > Subject: Re: [MonoDevelop] MonoDevelop on Windows?
> >=20
> >  =20
> > > Hello,
> > >=20
> > > On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 16:15 +0100, Hywel Thomas wrote:
> > >    =20
> > > > Hello,
> > > >=20
> > > > Early on when MonoDevelop was first released I think I read somethi=
ng
> > > > along the lines of 'at present, MonoDevelop runs only on linux'.  I=
'm
> > > > interested to know what is required to run MD on Windows, but using=
 Gtk#
> > > > rather than SWF (which has already been discussed recently).  I've =
only
> > > > just started getting familiar with Gtk#, but all the examples I've =
tried
> > > > so far have worked on Windows as well as linux, so I'm wondering wh=
at
> > > > the main problem areas are, and whether any effort is currently goi=
ng
> > > > into this.=20
> > > >=20
> > > > The MD Core + Addins architecture looks ideal as the framework for =
a
> > > > number of my own applications that I'd like to bring up to date, bu=
t
> > > > again it would be nice to have both linux and Windows versions with=
 the
> > > > same GUI toolkit, rather than build one up using SWF and the other =
with
> > > > Gtk#.
> > > >=20
> > > >      =20
> > > We depend on a shrinking amount of gnome specific stuff. By shrinking=
, I
> > > don't mean we are actively removing them, I mean that they are starti=
ng
> > > to work on windows also.  Two things here: 1) some gnome c-libs do no=
t
> > > have win32 ports yet 2) libgnomeui is sort of deprecated and these
> > > things are moving into GTK+ in newer releases.
> > >=20
> > > Some of the underlying libraries will likely be ported with evolution=
 to
> > > windows.  Some (like gtksourceview and the managed dock) may already
> > > work as is or with small changes.
> > >=20
> > > I think you should be able to write a portable Gtk# application using
> > > the core of monodevelop without too many problems right now.  One thi=
ng
> > > you might want to be aware of is since we are pre-1.0 there is no API
> > > stability assurances right now.
> > >=20
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