[MonoTouch] no iPhone build option in latest monodevelop

[Michael Bluestein]

Cool. Thanks Michael.

On Oct 2, 2009, at 4:21 PM, Michael Hutchinson  
<m.j.hutchinson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Michael Bluestein
> <mike.bluestein at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> Yes. Previously, there was an option to set the runtime to mono for  
>> iphone,
>> like this:
>
> Ah, right, I thought you meant that the "iphone build options" panel
> was not showing up.
>
> We changed it so you have to create a MonoTouch library project
> explicitly (the same way it works for silverlight in MD and VS).
>
> This fixes the bug where the framework version was not stored, as well
> as several other more subtle issues particularly regarding future
> MSBuild and VS compatibility.
>
> To change an existing project, edit the csproj in a text editor, and
> copy the ProjectTypeGuids value over from a MonoTouch project.
>
> It's sub-optimal - it reflects MD's internal limitations and
> compatibility with the VS/MSBuild project format. Converting projects
> gets complicated when you consider details of things like transferring
> properties between project types that may or may not support them, and
> changing the MSBuild targets paths, etc. I would love to make it
> easier but we just couldn't figure out a way to do it right easily,
> and we already have to do it this way for compatibility with VS
> silverlight projects - they do it that way too.
>
> I suspect the best solution is some kind of project
> converter/importer, but that's nontrivial.
>
> -- 
> Michael Hutchinson
> http://mjhutchinson.com