Re: CSHARP: Proposal to Remove Mono from the CMAKE build scripts

However, it is not necessary to build in Mono for the libraries to run on
Mono. The libraries can be compiled using dotnet and consumed by Mono - I
have doing that for many years for Unity.

On Wed, 15 Apr 2026, 17:57 Paul Harwood, <[email protected]> wrote:

> See https://www.mono-project.com/
>
> Microsoft has been the de facto owner of Mono for 10 years.
>
> On Wed, 15 Apr 2026, 17:43 Andrew Bell, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 12:27 PM Paul Harwood via gdal-dev
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > I have created an RFC to propose that we remove support for building in
>> Mono using mcs from the CMAKE build scripts for the C# bindings.
>> >
>> > https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/14368
>> >
>> > The CMAKE build scripts grandfathered in support for this from the
>> previous build system.
>> >
>> > Mono is deprecated by Microsoft and the advice is to use dotnet on all
>> platforms - which include all platforms we support with the build scripts.
>>
>> I thought Mono was an *alternative* to the Microsoft ecosystem for MS
>> VM/CLI/etc., so saying that it's "deprecated by Microsoft" seems like
>> a strange statement, but I'm not up on the latest news.
>>
>> --
>> Andrew Bell
>> [email protected]
>>
>

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