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+System.Windows.Forms README
+
+ by John Sohn (jsohn@columbus.rr.com) and Miguel de Icaza (miguel@ximian.com)
+
+ The maintainers:
+ Dennis Hayes (DENNISH@Raytek.com)
+ Backup: Miguel de Icaza (miguel@ximian.com)
+
+ Mailing list:
+
+ http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list
+
+ The address is:
+
+ mono-winforms-list@ximian.com.
+
+
+* Introduction
+
+ Welcome to the System.Windows.Forms implementation for Mono.
+
+ This is still an early version of the class library. The
+ plans for this library have changed, the plans to use multiple
+ backends is no longer being pursued.
+
+ We are now implementing this using the Wine library (because
+ Windows.Forms applications require the message handling to be
+ compatible with Windows, look up the Control.Wndproc method
+ for details).
+
+ Currently it is possible to use the Visual Studio solution in
+ this directory to build the class libraries, and test the
+ sample programs against our implementation.
+
+ To run and execute with the Mono runtime on linux, the story
+ is more complicated as we need to use the "WineLib" support in
+ Wine.
+
+* The Layout
+
+ The layout in this directory has some historical files that you can
+ safely ignore, the following are just historical directories:
+
+ Gtk/
+ WINElib/
+
+ All of the real code is being done in the same was as it is being done
+ in the rest of the Mono assemblies.
+
+* Building System.Windows.Forms for Unix using Wine.
+
+ Since a WineLib application is a Windows application that is compiled under
+ Unix/Linux as a shared library it needs to be started differently than other
+ applications. The WineLib application is started as any other Windows
+ application running under Wine using the wine command. You cannot simply link
+ in libwine (gcc myapp.c -lwine) to use Win32 functions.
+
+ In order to use WineLib/Win32 functions under Mono I have created a small
+ "stub" application that embeds the Mono engine inside the WineLib application.
+ This is basically a replacement for the "mono" command that can be used
+ to call the Win32 API (using WineLib) within an application written for Mono.
+
+ To get started I suggest installing Wine and Mono first if they are not
+ already installed. I am usually using the latest Wine snapshots built from
+ source and installed under /usr/local. Also be sure to build/use a version of
+ Mono with garbage collection disabled as there is a problem using WineLib with
+ garbage collection enabled (check the mono-list archives for this discussion).
+ You can disable garbage collection when building mono by adding --with-gc=none
+ to the configure command. In the mono directory I build mono as:
+ ./configure --with-gc=none
+
+ In the WINELib makefile you may have set these to the appropriate files and/or
+ paths on your PC:
+
+ X11R6_INCLUDE=/usr/X11R6/include
+ WINE_INCLUDE=/usr/local/include/wine
+ WINE_LIB=/usr/local/lib/wine
+ LIBMONO=/usr/local/lib/libmono.a
+
+ If you type make from the mcs/class/System.Windows.Forms/WINELib
+ directory it should build:
+
+ System.Windows.Forms.dll -
+ The current (if largely incomplete) Windows Forms package.
+
+ FormTest.exe, NativeWindowTest.exe, Test.exe -
+ Test applications which link to and tests the System.Windows.Forms.dll
+
+ monostub.exe.so -
+ The WineLib application that starts the Mono/WineLib application. This
+ small WineLib application embeds the Mono JIT engine allowing any Mono
+ application running in it access to WineLib/Win32 function calls.
+
+ Before starting any of the applications set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the
+ current directory (so DllImport can find the monostub.exe.so library):
+ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:.
+
+ To start any of the applications you type (from the WINELib directory):
+ wine monostub.exe.so mono-winelibapp.exe
+
+
+
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-Since a WineLib application is a Windows application that is compiled under
-Unix/Linux as a shared library it needs to be started differently than other
-applications. The WineLib application is started as any other Windows
-application running under Wine using the wine command. You cannot simply link
-in libwine (gcc myapp.c -lwine) to use Win32 functions.
-
-In order to use WineLib/Win32 functions under Mono I have created a small
-"stub" application that embeds the Mono engine inside the WineLib application.
-This is basically a replacement for the "mono" command that can be used
-to call the Win32 API (using WineLib) within an application written for Mono.
-
-To get started I suggest installing Wine and Mono first if they are not
-already installed. I am usually using the latest Wine snapshots built from
-source and installed under /usr/local. Also be sure to build/use a version of
-Mono with garbage collection disabled as there is a problem using WineLib with
-garbage collection enabled (check the mono-list archives for this discussion).
-You can disable garbage collection when building mono by adding --with-gc=none
-to the configure command. In the mono directory I build mono as:
- ./configure --with-gc=none
-
-In the WINELib makefile you may have set these to the appropriate files and/or
-paths on your PC:
-
-X11R6_INCLUDE=/usr/X11R6/include
-WINE_INCLUDE=/usr/local/include/wine
-WINE_LIB=/usr/local/lib/wine
-LIBMONO=/usr/local/lib/libmono.a
-
-If you type make from the mcs/class/System.Windows.Forms/WINELib
-directory it should build:
-
-System.Windows.Forms.dll -
-The current (if largely incomplete) Windows Forms package.
-
-FormTest.exe, NativeWindowTest.exe, Test.exe -
-Test applications which link to and tests the System.Windows.Forms.dll
-
-monostub.exe.so -
-The WineLib application that starts the Mono/WineLib application. This
-small WineLib application embeds the Mono JIT engine allowing any Mono
-application running in it access to WineLib/Win32 function calls.
-
-Before starting any of the applications set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the
-current directory (so DllImport can find the monostub.exe.so library):
- export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:.
-
-To start any of the applications you type (from the WINELib directory):
- wine monostub.exe.so mono-winelibapp.exe
-
-John Sohn
-jsohn@columbus.rr.com
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