Cannot use Cairo in Monodevelop on Debian linux

I want to create my own GTK# widget, and so I need to use Cairo for custom painting. But there is a big problem - Cairo library is not recognized on my machine.

At statement using Cairo; Monodevelop says: The name 'Cairo' does not exist in the current context, and so I cannot even compile my sources. I have tried to disable source analysis, but obviously this is deeper problem.

I use Debian testing and all libmono-cairo* libraries are installed. Is there any way how to got Cairo working on Debian linux?

Thanks

Solution

If libmono-cairo* are installed, you surely missed adding Mono.Cairo to your references:

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Check Mono.Cairo to add cairo wrapper assembly to your project.

If you can't find Mono.Cairo in the Packages, go to .net Assembly Tab, and browse /usr/lib/mono/4.0/ Or any other cli version, and add Mono.Cairo.dll to your references.

note:

I've double check why on Debian (jessie for me) Mono.Cairo doesn't appear in the reference list even if Mono-cairo.pc is present in pkgconfig directory. Launching Monodevelop as Root, it appears in the Packages list. So must there be a permission failure somewhere.