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KevinH · 12-02-2014, 10:04 AM

Hi,

I am trying to test things under Mac OS X. I was able to find and download the Mono for Mac OS X 3.10._19 but it is broken and won't even run the WinForms example. Filed a bug and found you basically had to download a new MDK version just to get it to work at all. This is no where on the download page and they have not bothered to update their release build.

So then tried to download MonoMac and MonoDevelop but again, there are no direct links from the download page and when I found it in the Docs I had to instead download Xamarin Studio.app as the other links are gone. So their website seems to be horribly out of date.

Next I tried to run the Gtk# example but of course it fails. I looked and it said Gtk# requires the Mono Gtk# package but no download links point to anything of the sort. In one spot on the website it says it only runs on Unix and Win but on another spot it says if runs on Mac OS X as well but again no download links, so I have given up on Gtk#.

At least I can now run the Console and WinForms versions of "Hello World".

So now I need some of the other support programs you list. Unfortunately, none of the standard linux rpm/deb source packages are open-able under stock Mac OS X.

So can anyone point me to the proper source archives (tar.gz) and versions needed for any of these required items:

jpegtran - part of libjpeg-progs
optipng
gifsicle

I will build them and make them available for other Mac OS X users.

Thanks,

KevinH

12-02-2014, 10:04 AM	#27
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 8,884 Karma: 6120478 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Hi, I am trying to test things under Mac OS X. I was able to find and download the Mono for Mac OS X 3.10._19 but it is broken and won't even run the WinForms example. Filed a bug and found you basically had to download a new MDK version just to get it to work at all. This is no where on the download page and they have not bothered to update their release build. So then tried to download MonoMac and MonoDevelop but again, there are no direct links from the download page and when I found it in the Docs I had to instead download Xamarin Studio.app as the other links are gone. So their website seems to be horribly out of date. Next I tried to run the Gtk# example but of course it fails. I looked and it said Gtk# requires the Mono Gtk# package but no download links point to anything of the sort. In one spot on the website it says it only runs on Unix and Win but on another spot it says if runs on Mac OS X as well but again no download links, so I have given up on Gtk#. At least I can now run the Console and WinForms versions of "Hello World". So now I need some of the other support programs you list. Unfortunately, none of the standard linux rpm/deb source packages are open-able under stock Mac OS X. So can anyone point me to the proper source archives (tar.gz) and versions needed for any of these required items: jpegtran - part of libjpeg-progs optipng gifsicle I will build them and make them available for other Mac OS X users. Thanks, KevinH Last edited by KevinH; 12-02-2014 at 11:16 AM.