Mono 1.0 experiences

[Tamas Budavari]

Let me just add that...

...the same web services client (C# code) .exe file I compiled and ran on
Linux works also on WinXP and does the same thing as the one compiled on
windows. It is true the other way around as well; the .exe compiled on
windows runs with Mono. The two files have the same lengths (7680 bytes)
but they differ, which must be due to the metadata describing the
compiler/version that were different (csc vs msc).

I knew it should work like that eventually but it is working *now* with
the first release of Mono (v1.0) Very impressive, isn't it? :-)

Cheers, T.

PS> I compiled msc on RH 7.3 linux myself w/o any problems 
(./configure, make install)


On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Matthew Graham wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just thought that I would make a few comments on the playing around with
> Mono 1.0 (on Mac OS X 10.3.4) that I have been doing this week. 
> 
> Why Mono? Mono is the open source version of .Net with apparent support
> for ASP.NET and database support (SQL Server, etc).
> 
> Mono v1.0 was officially released June 30 (http://www.go-mono.com) and
> there are rpms for Linux, Windows installer (why) and a dmg for Macos X
> (Panther). 
> 
> Tamas and I tested it with a toy client loading the WSDL from his name
> resolver web service and it gave exactly the same answers as Windows .Net
> based client. There is a utility for auto-generating the client stubs,
> unimaginatively called wsdl.exe.
> 
> GUI support: On MacOS, it uses gtk+, which you have to setup with Fink -
> this is a bit of a slog but instructions are included on the web site,
> although contact me if you are going to do this on MacOS because they are
> slightly wrong. I have just run the test programs (under X11) and the test
> GUIs look fine.
> 
> ASP.NET support is *not* there for MacOS X: you need to build xsp (the
> Mono ASP.NET container) and mod_mono (the Apache module to use this) and
> both have killer bugs on MacOS - they will build/install OK but don't
> work. There is a Bugzilla actively tracking this but anything which says
> "load the latest version from CVS" should not be a 1.0 release.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
>