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Mono on OSX: Couldn't find gtksharpglue-2.dll

I'm trying to do my first steps in C# and wanted to build an empty GTK window as my first task. Via macports I installed the following packages:

I also use MonoDevelop from the Mono homepage.

I added gtk-sharp.dll (from /opt/local/lib/mono/gtk-sharp-2.0) to my references. My code looks like this:

using System;
using Gtk;

namespace lolbr_client
{
    class MainClass
    {
        public static void Main (string[] args)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Loading..");
            Window window = new Window("test");
        }
    }
}

When I compile and run that snippet, it seems to find and include the GTK-library, it prints "Loading.." to the console, but the line after Console.WriteLine() causes this error:

System.DllNotFoundException: gtksharpglue-2
  at (wrapper managed-to-native) Gtk.Container:gtksharp_gtk_container_get_focus_child_offset ()
  at Gtk.Container..cctor () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

While that particular .dll doesn't exist on my filesystem, a quick locate gtksharpglue-2 revealed the following files:

/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/2.10.9/lib/libgtksharpglue-2.so
/opt/local/lib/libgtksharpglue-2.a
/opt/local/lib/libgtksharpglue-2.la
/opt/local/lib/libgtksharpglue-2.so

Do those files help me? What are the next steps from here to debug/fix this? I already searched Google, but either I am too new to this subject to recognize useful information, or useful information just doesn't exist. Can someone help me? Thanks in advance!

Solution

  • The solution how to run GTK Sharp MONO apps (compiled for example with Xamarin Studio) is to do following:

    1. Compile your mono/gtk-sharp app as Release

    2. Create shell script file (bash) like this (name it anyway you wish)

      [sharp]!/bin/sh

export DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/lib:$DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/lib"    
exec /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/bin/mono ./AsketicExcel.exe

    enter image description here

    _3. Then you could run this form Terminal or you can use this packager tool http://sveinbjorn.org/platypus and create normal OSX App :) (include in the package all your files in Release dir)

    Then in order to run this app on other mac you will need to install GTK# & Mono runtime http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/download.html

    In the end it would look like: enter image description here