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  How to Write a Basic Gtk# Program with Mono
Subject:   Uhhh... riiiiight.
Date:   2004-07-09 08:25:18
From:   xeroply
When trying to compile I am stuck at:


Mono.exe - Entry Point Not Found: The procedure entry point libiconv_set_relocation_prefix could not be located in the dynamic link library iconv.dll.


I followed the "instructions" on http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/index.php/InstallingBeginnersGuideForWindows as much as I could (and I'd just like to say, this is THE WORST "beginner's guide" I have ever seen. A bunch of people going back and forth wiki-style on how they can't get this thing to work, and all these workarounds to try depending on which of 87 versions you might have downloaded, is a pretty poor excuse for a guide of any kind.)


I figured out (I think) that GTK# or GTK+ must not installed correctly. I ran the GTK+ installer here: http://www.gmdsoft.de/mitsch/software/boolmin/gtk-runtime-2.2.4-rev-a.exe and the GTK# installer here: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gtk-sharp/gtk-sharp-0.93-setup.exe?download (Apparently there's no Win32 installer yet for GTK# 1.0 and I'm not about to install cygwin just to build it from source.)


Obviously I'm an amateur, but until this stuff is as easy for us amatuers as Visual Studio, it't not going to gain much traction among the Windows crowd.
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  • Edd Dumbill photo New all-in-one Windows installer
    2004-07-10 02:43:45  Edd Dumbill | O'Reilly AuthorO'Reilly Blogger [View]

    Try this installer for Windows instead.

    This mini-article was written before Mono 1.0 was released, and before this installer was created.
    • New all-in-one Windows installer
      2004-07-14 15:25:20  warren_gallagher [View]

      This combined with using -pkg:gtk-sharp worked great for me, although I always get a console window. This is desired in this case because we are looking for the "HelloWorld!" text in the console when the button is pressed.

      Are there ways to disable this behaviour?
      • Niel Bornstein photo New all-in-one Windows installer
        2004-08-11 12:27:07  Niel Bornstein | O'Reilly AuthorO'Reilly Blogger [View]

        Use -target:winexe to create an executable that doesn't open a console. The default is -target:exe, which creates a console application.

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