Installing Mono, Gtk# and MonoDevelop Preview on Windows 7

These days while playing with CakePHP and internationalization in it provided by good old gettext (also used by WordPress, Drupal,…). I start to wonder does this i18n is also for Winidows or only for *nix operating system. While deep diving across and beyond Google I found a gettext installation for Windows, install binaries, but I wanted more!

I want to use gettext with C# and found a internationalization for gettext in Mono.Posix assembly with simple example. Nice, I rushed at once to download the latest Mono 2.4.2.3 and install it. So, I really don’t know how Mono runs on Visual Studio or SharpDevlop, but I remembered of MonoDevelop (was once a fork of SharpDevelop to Linux, but to day this projects are quite different from each other), a nice development application for Mono on Linux and it has preview release for Windows.

The Problem and Solution

The problem is when I installed a MonoDevelop, it just crash over and over. In comments on download page, some folks also have same problem, MonoDevelop just crashes. It is clearly written on download page that MonoDevelop requires Gtk# for .NET 2.12.9-2. But the same Gtk# is available, and downloaded, and installed with Mono.

The solution for me is plain and simple. Even though Gtk# came with Mono, I downloaded Gtk# provided as link on MonoDevelop and installed it, and as you can guess MonoDevelop runs, works, builds, compiles and even debugs like charm. A nice piece of software and it had a quite nice logo. Happy coding with MonoDevelop!