Gentoo and C#: Development and Compiler

LoTeK · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jul 2012 Posts: 270

Does any of you have experience with C#. I guess C# is not a supported language of GCC, so is it possible to code with for example vim and compile with an opensource compiler?
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xaviermiller · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2013 3:23 pm Post subject:

Hello,

There is Mono and for sure editors adapted for.

But, as for Wine, I found counterproductive, or even evil to use Microsoft products running Windows in Linux. You will have more problems using Mono than using Visual Studio which is the best editor / compiler suite I have met since now.
And not all libraries are present in Mono : only those defined by the ECMA standard + gtk / Qt bindings, but none of the Microsoft libraries, of course.

So, if you need to learn Microsoft C#, stay on Microsoft OS and software suites.
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LoTeK · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jul 2012 Posts: 270

Thanks for your answer!

xaviermiller · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2013 7:20 pm Post subject:

Visual Studio doesn't work with Wine: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=892

Frankly, using Windows app without the Windows OS is like alcohol free beers : it's not KISS

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LoTeK · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jul 2012 Posts: 270

xaviermiller · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 6:55 am Post subject:

In some pubs, you don't have the choice of the best beer

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John R. Graham · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 3:42 pm Post subject:

At work, I am forced to run Windows for the corporate infrastructure applications, but most of the actual product development I do is embedded systems running Linux. My solution for my newly upgraded desktop machine will be to run a copy of Windows 7 under a VM (probably Xen; I'm still experimenting) with the underlying iron running Gentoo.

Visual Studio (which I use sporadically) will surely run under that. :wink:

- John
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LoTeK · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jul 2012 Posts: 270

I thought about VM's too, but I've got no experience with them.
Can you post your solution when it's working?

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John R. Graham · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 4:41 pm Post subject:

Sure.

- John
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