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Odisea 2005 - Gecko#

Yesterday I drove 176 miles and spent over 50 dollars between toll food and fuel. Yet...

I feel like breaking into a song. This would be "a la" Sound of Music/The Hills are Alive grandiose style - although, in my production is a bit more lantino to a Salsa beat that includes congas and timbales and we are the beach and people are dancing in bathing suits. "Wake up Paco, Wake up!"

Anyhow, it all began when I kidnaped Zac Bowling from his home in Richardson Texas and strapped him to a chair in my home at Fort Worth. Well, I gave him Pizza and soft drinks so it wasn't that bad. I was not going to let him go until we ended up with a reproducible Win32 installer for his custom GRE and an understanding of how and what was left to be done to get Gecko# 0.7 working in Windows.

I have to say that he came through with flying colors and for that, I owe him my gratitude.

Here is a few pictures of our mini Hackathon:

I will be uploading the GRE for Gecko# installer into the Novell Forge project for Mono and Windows integration and later will produce three new installers:

• Mono 1.1.4 Combined Installer for Win32


• Gtk# 1.9.2 Win32 Installer for .NET Framework 1.1 SDK


• Gtk# 1.9.2 Win32 Installer for .NET Framework 1.1 Runtime

All three of these installers will have version 0.7 of gecko-sharp.dll and will be preconfigured in their respective GAC (Mono or MS .NET Framework)

I also will put out a quick Glade# application that will show how to use Gecko# while in Windows.

Posted by martinf at February 13, 2005 05:33 PM