Description of problem: Mono System.Windows.Forms apps cannot start without libgdiplus-devel installed - they give exceptions that /usr/lib/libgdiplus.so is not found. The application I was using is MoMA - http://www.mono-project.com/MoMA Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.2.5-1.fc8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to MoMA directory 2. mono MoMA.exe 3. Exception ! Actual results: The program fails to run, with an exception. I'm attaching the detailed exception, though it is always reproducible on any system. Expected results: With "libgdiplus" package installed, this should just work. After installing "libgdiplus-devel" it works, because that package provides libgdiplus.so Additional info: This is not happening because (I think) fedora is splitting out the .so from the .so.0 file, but not updating the assemblies to use the non-.so file. Correct solution is for Fedora to either ship the .so in the libgdiplus package, OR update the assembly.dll.config files to reference libgdiplus.so.0 Thanks to jonp on ##csharp on freenode for help in figuring out this problem.
Created attachment 289939 [details] Exception while running MoMA
In this case, assembly.dll.config file should be /usr/lib/mono/gac/System.Drawing/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll.config with contents something like <configuration><dllmap dll="gdiplus.dll" target="libgdiplus.so.0" /></configuration> (Thanks again, jonp)
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