Any of you have any experience using .Net on non-Windows OSes via Mono or other OS-helpers like that?

Just curious how likely someone would be able to play a .Net-created game on a Mac or a Linux machine. And if there were "best practices" to stick to make it more likely to work.

(Of course the alternative is to just do a complete re-write for each OS/platform based on the best available tools for each ... but I'm curious about the practical reality of something that was held up as a theoretical outcome when .Net was first introduced -- that is could be cross-platform.)

-Matt

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I know nothing about it, but I have found this: http://dotgnu.org/pnet.html

I don't know if it's helpful.

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I saw one of our guys at head office having a really hard time trying to run ASPX pages on an Apache webserver via MONO. I don't even know if it's possible.

I would suspect that you'd have to target an older version of the framework in order to get decent compatibility. I wouldn't expect .NET 4.0 stuff to be well covered by the open source versions.

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Anecdotal: Based on what I've heard and experienced, MONO on Macs is uncommon, and seen by many as useless/pointless. I was considering using C# with OpenGL to target Win/Max/Nix as opposed to Win/X360/WP7, until I found out that bit of info.

Some people have MONO on their Macs, but for others, you have an extra download of a few hundred megabytes to add onto your app for people to use it.

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If .Net were easy to run on OSX, I expect we'd have heard a lot more about it.

I doubt that MS wants to help people step away from the windows environment either.

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It was?
As far as I remember, MS first tried to 'enhance' Java towards their platform, but Sun wouldn't let them.
So they created their own 'Java' instead.
I still think it is a brilliant move, not only user lock-in, but also developer lock-in :D

As for running at non-windows platforms, dot-gnu is the only alternative I am aware of.
My package manager does not even seem to have it.

You just answered your own question, there.

Only difference is that Java is on many platforms, while .Net is on many Microsoft platforms.

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That's a nice way of putting it :D