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coldtea on Feb 26, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mono 3.2.7 is out

>My dev platform is Ubuntu so I downloaded MonoDevelop and load the GtkSharp example (or maybe it was just the skeleton project template). Hit compile, bunch of errors showed up. Apparently I don't have the GTK libraries. Googled a bit, it looks like I had to download gtk-dev, compile, and do a bunch of things before I can run a "Hello, World" GTK sharp app.

Well, that's how it works on Linux. What else did you expect? That they'd bundle all the Gtk stuff statically?

edwinnathaniel on Feb 27, 2014 [–]

Maybe the problem is the packaging and the dependency management.

Maybe the problem is GtkSharp that relies on native GTK, I don't know...

But in Java, I see that they somehow can get SWING to work (and render as GTK..?) without me downloading 3rd-party dependencies.

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