[Pkg-mono-devel] Re: Windows.Forms on Debian

[David Wright]

>Have you installed  mono-assemblies-arch?
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Yes, I have. I see that it includes a /usr/lib/winelib.exe.so. If I 
create a softlink
    /usr/lib/libwinnt.dl.so -> /usr/lib/winelib.exe.so
then mono doesn't complain about finding libwinnt.dll.so, but it still 
fails, with the following message:

** (mono-hello-window.exe:8891): WARNING **: Failed to load function 
PROCESS_InitWine from libwinnt.dll.so

Unhandled Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: An exception 
was thrown by the type initializer for System.Windows.Forms.Win32 ---> 
System.MissingMethodException: A missing method exception has occurred.
in <0x00042> (wrapper managed-to-native) 
System.Windows.Forms.Win32:PROCESS_InitWine (int,string[])
in <0x00374> System.Windows.Forms.Win32:.cctor ()
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---

in (unmanaged) System.Windows.Forms.Win32:MessageBoxA 
(intptr,string,string,uint)
in <0x00026> System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox:Show (string)
in <0x0000f> .Hello:Main ()

The problem seems to be that it can't find 
PROCESS_InitWine(int,string[]) in libwine.exe.so. It seems to me we need 
someone who knows about wine to tell us what shared library is supposed 
to be a proxy for libwinnt.dll, or what shared library containes the 
InitWine funciton.

By the way, does anyone reading this actually have a WinForms app 
working on Debian?