[SOLVED] GTK# installed but not recognized

tuto · 08-13-2013, 11:10 AM

I just moved from C# programming on Windows to C# on Linux and I tried a simple Hello World application that uses GTK# for GUI. However, the first time I tried to built it MonoDevelop complained that package Gtk cannot be found. I installed "GTK and GNOME bindings for Mono" from yum (along with other GTK-related packages) but the problem persisted. Then I type in the terminal

Code:

pkg-config --list-all

but no GTK package was listed. I found in another forum that pkg-config lists only packages that have *.pc file. I tried

Code:

locate gtk-sharp-2.0.pc

but no file was found. Finally I added manually inside MonoDevelop an assembly reference to 'gtk-sharp.dll' (which is in /usr/lib/mono/gtk-sharp-2.0). The program compiled but now crashed with uncaught exception.

Code:

public static void Main (string[  ] args)

  {

    Application.Init ( );
  }

Application.init(); causes System.DllNotFoundException.
A file named libglib-2.0-0.dll is referenced in the report.

John VV · 08-13-2013, 03:28 PM

i would move all that Microsoft windows .net code over to c++
mono is always going to be 3 or MORE versions behind .net-framework , and missing a lot of the api's that are in Microsoft's code for use on a MS os

as per your problem you are likely missing the "-dev.deb's" if this is a Debian OS
or the "-devel.rpm's" if this is a red hat os

you mention "yum"
so this is one of the red hat family of os's
Fedora 18 or 19
CentOS 5.9 or 6.4 ( mono is version 2.4.3.1 in rhel6 )
RHEL 5.9 or 6.4
ScientificLinux 5.9 or 6.4

tuto · 08-21-2013, 10:27 AM

Installing developer packages of GTK and GTK# solved the problem.