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Re: NET/Link with Mono?

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• Subject: [mg61210] Re: [mg61190] NET/Link with Mono?
• From: Todd Gayley <tgayley at wolfram.com>
• Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 03:21:34 -0400 (EDT)
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At 12:42 AM 10/12/2005, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
>Has anybody attempted to use the .NET suff in the Mathematica distribution
>on Linux using Mono?
>http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page


Steven,

There is experimental support for Mono on Linux in .NET/Link, but a bug in 
version 1.2.1 (this is the version that ships with Mathematica 5.2) 
prevents it from working. You can try it with version 1.2.0, however, which 
you can get from 
http://www.wolfram.com/solutions/mathlink/netlink/downloading.html. That is 
the version bundled with Mathematica 5.1, but you can use it with other 
versions of Mathematica. Get the zip file and unpack it into <mathematica 
dir>/AddOns. You can test which version of .NET/Link you have like this:

     <<NETLink`
     NETLink`Information`$Version

You should find that with .NET/Link 1.2.0, InstallNET[] succeeds as long as 
you have the 'mono' executable on your PATH. Creating objects and calling 
methods works, and so does using DefineDLLFunction to call C functions in 
shared libraries. Almost anything that tries to use Windows Forms (that is, 
a GUI program) is sure to fail, however. Be sure you have the latest 
release of Mono.

We are watching the progress of Mono and will decide when, or if, to 
announce support for it in .NET/Link. I wouldn't be surprised if we bundle 
.NET/Link with all platforms in the next release of Mathematica and claim 
limited Mono support.


Todd Gayley
Wolfram Research