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Speerit
Speerit

Reputation: 196

Running .Net Framework application on xp without .Net installed

I’ve got an application written in .Net Framework 4.0, that I need to be able to run on Win xp sp3 without .Net installed.

I’ve found that using mono and mkbundle --static --deps, I can achieve what I need (if I understand it correctly). So I started with a simple “Hello world” app:

using System;

namespace Hello
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Hello world");
            Console.ReadKey();
        }
    }
}

But when I use:

mkbundle --static --deps Hello.exe -o Hello -L /usr/lib/mono/4.0-api

error occurs.

Edit: Thanks to gethomast I’ve succesfully build app for linux. I had to use:

mkbundle --fetch-target mono-6.0.0-ubuntu-18.04-x64
mkbundle --static --deps Hello.exe -o Hello --cross mono-6.0.0-ubuntu-18.04-x64 --i18n none

But I need to run my app on windows xp. Is there an option to download tools/runtime for windows xp? Or maybe I need to use mono installed on xp to build app? Or maybe I can use win 10 with older mono and VS installed?

Anyone had some experience on that subject? Any help appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 75

Answers (1)

gethomast
gethomast

Reputation: 446

known issue at mono github, see https://github.com/mono/mono/issues/16829

Upvotes: 0

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