[QCLUG] Mono - first question

[Dave Bergert]

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The ReadMe has this on Mono on Mac/Linux:

Rawr on Mac OS X / Linux
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NOTE: Rawr v3 is currently in development, and will run natively on  
OSX Intel. Until then...

You can run Rawr using Mono. Mono is a set of libraries that mimic  
the .NET Framework, which Rawr is built on, allowing it to run on OSX  
(and Linux). However, unfortunately, it's extremely buggy. If you want  
to give it a try, please do, it very well may work just fine for you.  
For most users, running Rawr via some form of emulation (Boot Camp,  
VMWare Fusion, Parallels, etc) will give you the best results, though.

That said, I'm doing what I can to make Rawr available to Mac users,  
and that means officially supporting running Rawr on OSX, via Mono.

How to Run Rawr on OSX:
  1) Install Mono (http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/ 
download.html) for Mac OS X.
	1a) NOTE: At time of writing, Mono v2.4 is the latest, however, it's  
broken; use Mono v2.2 if you have issues with the latest version.
  2) Unzip Rawr.
  3) Open the Terminal, navigate to where you unzipped Rawr (look for  
basic guides to the Terminal, if you need help with that), and type  
'mono Rawr.exe', and hit enter. That should launch Rawr for you.

Mono has some problems, so I appreciate your patience as I work to try  
to make Rawr stable under Mono. I strongly suggest saving often for now.

Known Issues:
  - Mono doesn't look perfect. It looks kinda ugly, and you'll see  
some weird graphical artifacts. I'll try to work around this as best I  
can, but it's going to take time.
  - Mono has some crashing problems. Things will be running fine, then  
all of a sudden, the whole app'll close. I can try to work around  
these bugs in Mono, but it's going to take time.
  - Tooltips on labels don't work in Mono. I'll see if I can work  
around this for a later version. At least for stats, you can work  
around this by using the Copy Character Stats to Clipboard feature.
  - The clipboard doesn't work under Mono. In the mean time, when  
running on Mono, Copy Character Stats to Clipboard will save the stats  
as 'stats.txt' in the folder with Rawr.
  - More issues, I'm sure.



On Aug 23, 2009, at 9:43 AM, Jim Hall wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Dave Bergert <dbergert@gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> Here is a nice overview of the mono project for those that are  
> interested:
>
> http://ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2005/03/21/interviewmiguel.html
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Dave Bergert <dbergert@gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> If this http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page  then yes a little.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Jim Hall <volunteer.jim@gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> Before I get into anything lengthy, is anyone really familiar with  
> "mono"? If not, I won't go further.
>
> Jim
>
>
>
> Very nice article, sounds like good potential.
>
> I'm trying to run a program called "Rawr".
> http://rawr.codeplex.com/
> It comes as a zip file. The site seems to say it was written  
> with .NET and he is trying to get Linux/Mac to run it with mono. Uh,  
> ok. I used winetricks to install .NET2.0. I put the file in my Wine  
> directory and tried to install it. No go (may be a Wine issue). So I  
> extracted it. Made Wine aware of the two supplied dll's. Wine ran  
> the exe. Program starts but is crippled - therefore useless.
>
> I would like to run it from mono (it is on my system). I've had a  
> couple of suggestions from the wine list on how to run a program  
> with mono, but they didn't work. Could it be so .NET specific that  
> mono won't run it?
>
> Hope all that helps.
>
> Jim.


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