So a while ago I was looking at making an app that did browsery stuff, and using the C# WebBrowser control seemed the simplest option.
That was back in early December, and I've just got back to looking at it now, and I'm trying to figure out what I've done. :/
I have Mono installed, and inside the install directory I have a projects folder which has an inventively named "simple_browse_1" containing browser.cs and a browser.exe
Running the executable results in a customised browser with my initial experiments, and the behaviour of this mirrors what the C# code suggests it should do.
However, attempting to compile the C# source doesn't work...
quote: C:\Program Files\Mono-2.0.1\bin>mcs ../projects/simple_browse_1/browser.cs
../projects/simple_browse_1/browser.cs(2,14): error CS0234: The type or namespac
e name `Windows' does not exist in the namespace `System'. Are you missing an as
sembly reference?
Compilation failed: 1 error(s), 0 warnings
That is pointing at the second line, using System.Windows.Forms;
I have also downloaded and installed SharpDevelop, and get a similar error about Windows not existing.
And yet, I haven't changed the source since creating the EXE - not according to Windows' last modified values which shows the executable being modified four seconds after the source.
To (hopefully) prove I'm not crazy, there is a second pair of files in the directory, created a full fifteen minutes later, and again with the source being modified earlier than it's working executable, which has the exact same error.
Which all makes me rather confused - the source must have been working when it was last touched, which means either the system has changed or I'm using the wrong command to compile?
Googling about definitely suggests mcs to be the compiler I need, and can't think what might have changed on the system.... unless SharpDevelop has hijacked and broken something when I installed it?
How do I figure out what has gone wrong? |
