GTK# trouble... sorry I can't think of a clever title, so sue me =/

Question

Here's the poop; I am working on a game for an assignment for my college courses and am being forced, essentially, to use C#, so on my laptop I am using Monodevelop with Debian Linux. Trouble is that GTK# apps won't run on Windows unless the dependencies are installed, which is a problem as my Uni's computers don't have that. My question is this, is there a way to package the dependencies with my compiled executable so I don't have to worry about having that stuff installed? Using Visual C# is essentially out of the question as this laptop barely can run Debian let alone Windows. I am aware of the System.Windows.Forms namespace, but for some reason my version of Monodevelop did not come with that.

Thank you for your help.

Answer 1

For all of my programming assignments, it was expected that our solutions would run on a specific computer lab's machines. Do you have something similar? If so, I would recommend writing & testing the game on the machines your prof (or TAs) expect the game to run on, rather than your own (apparently underpowered) laptop.

Answer 2

Debian splits up Mono into many smaller packages. I believe the one for System.Windows.Forms is called libmono-winforms2.0-cil.

You could bundle GTK# with your app but it would be complicated. You'd have to include all the GTK# and GTK+ libraries in the same directory as your app.