Can Irrlicht.net be used with .NET 2.0

swong · Post by **swong** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 2:28 am

We've come across a problem where Irrlicht appears to require the mscorlib from .NET 1.0. So on our systems, it will only run if we have .NET 1.0 installed alongside .NET 2.0 which we need the rest of our app. Is this truly a problem or have we forgotten some sort of reference to make Irrlicht reference the 2.0 version of mscorlib? Thanks!

afecelis · Post by **afecelis** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 1:46 pm

if you use MSVC2005 (free) you'll automatically be using the 2.0 .net files. It requires them by default.

Joe_Oliveri · Post by **Joe_Oliveri** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 10:42 pm

Just make sure that with any release you send to someone include the .NET 2.0 install because I have seen a few people who are not developers. Still have 1.1 or even no .NET installed on the computer.

swong · Post by **swong** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 1:36 am

We're using VS.NET 2005 Team Suite Edition, so we definitely have .NET 2.0 installed already. That's not the issue. The question is whether or not Irrlicht runs unmodified and/or un-optioned on a .NET 2.0 system.

What I think I'm hearing from everyone's responses is that Irrlicht should run fine on a machine with *only* .NET 2.0 installed and with no modifications or other compile options set. Yes?

Thanks!

afecelis · Post by **afecelis** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 1:50 am

It does. Just make sure the machine you'll be running your app on has the .net 2.0 runtime environment files installed.

It happened to me, I created this walkthru that ran ok on my machine, took it to my client, installed it trusting it would run ok by default and...bam!!! Nothing!

I thought it was a video driver version, DX9.0c runtime version, etc etc etc. But installing the DotNet Framework 2.0 solved it

Das Gurke · Post by **Das Gurke** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:15 pm

There is a vcredist.exe around. It installs exactly the part of the .net framework you need if you compiled your app with Visual Studio Express

It usually comes with your compiler. Have a look in
Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bootstrapper\Packages\vcredist_x86 (or x64 , machine depending)

But to make chaos perfect soom developers seem to miss it. Then go and google it:

Further info inside the MSDN

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPo ... 5&SiteID=1

Joe_Oliveri · Post by **Joe_Oliveri** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 4:49 pm

you can also go to msdn.com and download the .NET 2.0 exe.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:52 pm

Irrlicht.NET.H file

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/i ... iew=markup

I am not sure how the

#using <mscorlib.dll>

is interpeted if you have 1.1 installed during compilation time. You could download the Irrlicht.NET from SVN and recompile it yourself on a machine which only has .NET 2.0 installed to make sure. As you have team edition this shouldn't be too much of a hassle to compile.

luckymutt · Post by **luckymutt** » Mon May 01, 2006 3:34 pm

Also, I have read on msdn that you can set up your app's installer to check for the .NET 2.0 runtime and install the redist if it is not already there. It can even do what they are calling a "silent install" if you so choose.