mono mkbundle utility on windows

Question

Hello,

There has been a fair amount of mention of the mono utility mkbundle which is supposed to (among other things) allow you to create a bundle (standalone exe) with a c# project compiled with mono. This works when i run it in cygwin, however what i really would like to do is use the --deps option and --static option to pull in all of the dependencies and libraries so that it really is a standalone. While running the command in Cygwin, it claims that --static is unsupported under the current platform (i assume it is referring to windows). The question, then is :

Is there any way around this dilemma?

If not, what specific .dlls am i now required to carry along with my executable in order to get the thing running? It doesnt seem to be listed anywhere on the mono site.

Thanks!

Answer 1

There are no way to make a crossplatform app in mono with all necessary libraries included because these libraries will rely on some specific non-managed libraries.
The right way here is to create an installer (using wix for example) for your application and include a mono installer in it. So when you'll install your app the mono will be installed too. For linux you'll need to create an installer too.

Answer 2

http://linux.die.net/man/1/mkbundle:

On Windows systems, it it necessary to have Unix-like toolchain to be installed for mkbundle to work. You can use cygwin's and install gcc, gcc-mingw and as packages.