monodroid: cannot deploy to emulator with evaluation version

Question

I followed all the descriptions of "how to build a hello word app with monodroid and vs2010. When I deploy solution by pressing F5 and select the emulator, the emulator starts up, I can select it from the device list, the packaging starts, but gets an error said:Could not create the Android package. See the Output (Build) window for more details. In the output window, I can see the following message (the complete message had been added to the end of the question): ...monodroid : error 1: Evaluation version requires targeting the shared runtime...

Anyone can help to gets work it?

Thanks forward: Zsolt

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Build started 2011.05.05. 11:12:38. Project "c:\documents and settings\zsolt\dokumentumok\visual studio 2010\Projects\MonoAndroidApplication1\MonoAndroidApplication1\MonoAndroidApplication1.csproj" on node 1 (SignAndroidPackage target(s)). _GenerateAndroidAssetsDir: Skipping target "_GenerateAndroidAssetsDir" because it has no outputs. _ResolveMonoAndroidSdks: Looking for Android SDK.. Key HKCU\SOFTWARE\Android SDK Tools\Path not found. Key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Android SDK Tools\Path found: Path contains adb.exe in \platform-tools (C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk). Looking for Java SDK.. Key HKLM\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Development Kit\CurrentVersion found: 1.6. Key HKLM\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Development Kit\1.6\JavaHome found: Path contains jarsigner.exe in \bin (C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_25). MonoAndroid Tools: C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Novell\ MonoAndroid Framework: C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\MonoAndroid\v2.2\;C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\MonoAndroid\v1.0\ Android SDK: C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\ Java SDK: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_25\ _ValidateAndroidPackageProperties: GetAndroidPackageName Task ManifestFile: AssemblyName: MonoAndroidApplication1 PackageName: MonoAndroidApplication1.MonoAndroidApplication1 _UpdateAndroidResgen: Skipping target "_UpdateAndroidResgen" because all output files are up-to-date with respect to the input files. GenerateTargetFrameworkMonikerAttribute: Skipping target "GenerateTargetFrameworkMonikerAttribute" because all output files are up-to-date with respect to the input files. CoreCompile: Skipping target "CoreCompile" because all output files are up-to-date with respect to the input files. CopyFilesToOutputDirectory: MonoAndroidApplication1 -> c:\documents and settings\zsolt\dokumentumok\visual studio 2010\Projects\MonoAndroidApplication1\MonoAndroidApplication1\bin\Release\MonoAndroidApplication1.dll _CompileAndroidPackage: Mandroid Task Assemblies: c:\documents and settings\zsolt\dokumentumok\visual studio 2010\Projects\MonoAndroidApplication1\MonoAndroidApplication1\bin\Release\MonoAndroidApplication1.dll; C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\MonoAndroid\v2.2\Mono.Android.dll; C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\MonoAndroid\v1.0\mscorlib.dll; C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\MonoAndroid\v1.0\System.Core.dll; C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\MonoAndroid\v1.0\System.dll; C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\MonoAndroid\v1.0\System.Xml.dll; C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\MonoAndroid\v1.0\System.Xml.Linq.dll I18nAssemblies: BuildDirectory: c:\documents and settings\zsolt\dokumentumok\visual studio 2010\Projects\MonoAndroidApplication1\MonoAndroidApplication1\obj\Release\ ReferenceAssembliesDirectory: C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\MonoAndroid\v2.2\;C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\MonoAndroid\v1.0\;; AndroidSdkDirectory: C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\ JavaSdkDirectory: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_25\ AssetDirectory: c:\documents and settings\zsolt\dokumentumok\visual studio 2010\Projects\MonoAndroidApplication1\MonoAndroidApplication1\obj\Release\assets\ AndroidSdkPlatform: 8 MonoAndroidToolsDirectory: C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Novell\ ResourceDirectory: c:\documents and settings\zsolt\dokumentumok\visual studio 2010\Projects\MonoAndroidApplication1\MonoAndroidApplication1\obj\Release\res\ ManifestTemplate: Package: MonoAndroidApplication1.MonoAndroidApplication1 NativeLibrary: JavaSource: Debug: False UseSharedRuntime: False SupportedAbis: armeabi LinkMode: SdkOnly ExtraArgs:
C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Novell\mandroid.exe -v --nosign --sdk-dir="C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk" --builddir="c:\documents and settings\zsolt\dokumentumok\visual studio 2010\Projects\MonoAndroidApplication1\MonoAndroidApplication1\obj\Release\android" --framework-dir="C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\MonoAndroid\v2.2" --framework-dir="C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\MonoAndroid\v1.0" -S="c:\documents and settings\zsolt\dokumentumok\visual studio 2010\Projects\MonoAndroidApplication1\MonoAndroidApplication1\obj\Release\res" --package="MonoAndroidApplication1.MonoAndroidApplication1" --linksdkonly --noshared --abi="armeabi" --java-sdk-dir="C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_25" --sdk-platform="8" "c:\documents and settings\zsolt\dokumentumok\visual studio 2010\Projects\MonoAndroidApplication1\MonoAndroidApplication1\bin\Release\MonoAndroidApplication1.dll" "C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\MonoAndroid\v2.2\Mono.Android.dll" "C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\MonoAndroid\v1.0\mscorlib.dll" "C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\MonoAndroid\v1.0\System.Core.dll" "C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\MonoAndroid\v1.0\System.dll" "C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\MonoAndroid\v1.0\System.Xml.dll" "C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\MonoAndroid\v1.0\System.Xml.Linq.dll" monodroid : error 1: Evaluation version requires targeting the shared runtime. [c:\documents and settings\zsolt\dokumentumok\visual studio 2010\Projects\MonoAndroidApplication1\MonoAndroidApplication1\MonoAndroidApplication1.csproj] Done Building Project "c:\documents and settings\zsolt\dokumentumok\visual studio 2010\Projects\MonoAndroidApplication1\MonoAndroidApplication1\MonoAndroidApplication1.csproj" (SignAndroidPackage target(s)) -- FAILED.

Build FAILED.

"c:\documents and settings\zsolt\dokumentumok\visual studio 2010\Projects\MonoAndroidApplication1\MonoAndroidApplication1\MonoAndroidApplication1.csproj" (SignAndroidPackage target) (1) -> (_CompileAndroidPackage target) -> monodroid : error 1: Evaluation version requires targeting the shared runtime. [c:\documents and settings\zsolt\dokumentumok\visual studio 2010\Projects\MonoAndroidApplication1\MonoAndroidApplication1\MonoAndroidApplication1.csproj]

0 Warning(s)
1 Error(s)

Time Elapsed 00:00:02.46

Error: Cancelled ========== Deploy: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped ==========

Answer 1

i ran into same situation and i found a solution i am pasting solution here as i am not sure how long the Link will be available

• Windows

  Open Android SDK Manager, and ensure that you have "Android SDK Build-tools" Rev. 19.1 or 20 installed. If not, install it.

  • Locate your Android SDK folder. You can find this in the error message, or you can look in Visual Studio under "Tools -> Options -> Xamarin -> Android Settings -> Android SDK Location". For this example, I'll use:

    %LOCALAPPDATA%\Android\android-sdk

  • Copy zipalign from the build-tools folder: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Android\android-sdk\build-tools\19.1.0\zipalign Into the tools folder: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Android\android-sdk\tools\zipalign

Mac

Open Android SDK Manager, and ensure that you have "Android SDK Build-tools" Rev. 19.1 or 20 installed. If not, install it.

• Locate your Android SDK folder. You can find this in the error message, or you can look in Xamarin Studio under "Xamarin Studio -> Preferences -> Projects -> SDK Locations -> Android -> Android SDK". For this example, I'll use:

  ~/Library/Developer/Xamarin/android-sdk-macosx Copy zipalign from the build-tools folder:

  ~/Library/Developer/Xamarin/android-sdk-macosx/build-tools/19.1.0/zipalign Into the tools folder:

  ~/Library/Developer/Xamarin/android-sdk-macosx/tools/zipalign

Answer 2

I had too a similar issue. In my case the problem was the package name. I had a special character in the package name.

Answer 3

I had a similar issue and it turned out to be that although I had purchased the Xamarin Mono for Android software, I had not registered it in Visual Studio 2010. I had installed it but had not registered it.

Answer 4

Your problem -I think- is the same as mine. I had a special character in the projects Location (C:\Users\bálint...). Try to create a new project, and set the Location something simple, like C:\Work\, and probably you can avoid this error.