Fully quoting Lluis Sanchez:
How to build MonoDevelop with Visual Studio in five easy steps:
- Install GTK# (get installer here)
- Install the Mono Libraries (get installer here)
- Get MonoDevelop from SVN
- Open main/Main.sln in Visual Studio
- Press F5
And for everyone completely clueless about the important fact in Lluis’ post: No, I haven’t just said “we need more Mono!! yeah!!!1 OMG PONNIES!!!111eleven”.
Now if someone would write similar steps for compiling a generic GTK+ application in Visual Studio…
I really believe that is a smart thing that Lluis did. It means that anyone can send a fix in their IDE. Also, think on this: I want to develop on C on a GNOME application, where should I start for? Give me 10 steps to be ready to work.
First Bonjour/zeroconf was implemented in proprietary XCode of Apple, what does it mean? We benefit till the date of support on Linux and we adapted it. The same is about webkit. Continuing the story, the FreePascal project was at start implemented in Borland Pascal/Delphi. If you can contribute to OpenSource, use the BEST TOOL.
You may argue: Visual Studio is not the best tool, Eclipse,, whatever is. The idea is that some persons using their skillset can be more productive in a platform (let’s say Windows) and a technology (let’s name it .NET and Visual Studio).
I’m afraid I don’t see the relevance of this.
Uhm… your links are broken
I don’t see this as an example of how good is to use VisualStudio for opensource development. Instead it shows what Linux and other opensource platforms lack: a good AND _widespread_ IDE in which I can load up _any_ opensource project just by downloading the tar.gz or checking out the SVN repo or whatever, and going to the Open menu and selecting the project’s folder or a projectfile and be done with it. At this point I should only click build and ta-da: the project is built. Automatically installing build dependencies and whatnot.
An IDE like this would really propel software development on Linux.
@Vadim
the same relevance of package managers instead of installing .tar.gz files all around your linux
@Gian
? it works here
@boteeka
perhaps not an IDE of their own, I would rather prefer integrating with each platform most popular IDE, we are not chasing libraries and platform, we are chasing developers that only care about developing. If they never are able to easily test our stuff they will never use it.