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nairware
nairware

Reputation: 3190

Mono + OS X: "No package 'cocoa-sharp' found"

I have recently installed Mono and MonoDevelop on Mac OS X, and now I am trying to create a native C# app for Mac. I tried following the Mono tutorial to create this double-clickable "app", but got stuck. My specific error was "no package 'cocoa-sharp' found" when I tried implementing the commands outlined in the documentation.

I searched SO and found others who were reporting missing the 'cocoa-sharp' package. The advice given in a thread over 3 years ago was to reinstall Mono. What happens when that does not work? Can I go get 'cocoa-sharp.pc' or whatever the specific file is and throw it into a particular directory manually? Am I even going down the right path?

The command I used:

gmcs test.cs -pkg:cocoa-sharp

Upvotes: 0

Views: 261

Answers (1)

Dynalon
Dynalon

Reputation: 6815

cocoa-sharp is obsolete and the tutorial is outdated, but thankfully there is a good replacement: MonoMac. You can fetch and compile it from within MonoDevelop (provided you have installed XCode), and there are lots of examples in the samples/ directory. There is even integration with the XCode interface designer.

Just recently there was a successor to MonoMac announced, which is however a commercial product: Xamarin.Mac.

Upvotes: 1

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