mono winform compile

http://www.mono-project.com/WinForms_Getting_Started_Guide

To build Windows.Forms from source, you need:

* The latest Mono (http://www.go-mono.com/download.html) package.

* The latest libgdiplus (http://www.go-mono.com/download.html)

library. Not needed on Windows XP since it includes gdiplus.dll

and for Windows 2000 it can be downloaded from MSDN.

[Paul Johnson provides a nice writup on how to build from source here

(http://www.all-the-johnsons.co.uk/mono/mono-compiling.shtml)]

Winforms Example

As there are plenty of great articles and books on Windows Forms

programming, the topic will not be covered in-depth. The following

is just a simple Winforms program to test with.

using System;

using System.Drawing;

using System.Windows.Forms;

public class HelloWorld : Form

{

static public void Main ()

{

Application.Run (new HelloWorld ());

}

public HelloWorld ()gpp

{

Button b = new Button ();

b.Text = "Click Me!";

b.Click += new EventHandler (Button_Click);

Controls.Add (b);

}

private void Button_Click (object sender, EventArgs e)

{

MessageBox.Show ("Button Clicked!");

}

}

If you save this code as hello.cs, you would compile it like this:

mcs -pkg:dotnet hello.cs

Using mcs to compile produces a .Net 1.1 assembly. To create a .Net 2.0 assembly, use gmcs:

gmcs -pkg:dotnet hello.cs

Either compiler will create "hello.exe", which you can run using:

mono hello.exe