running .net(mono) application in both linux and windows

I have created a c# application in ubuntu using monodevelop. It is running well in ubuntu. I tried to run that application(firstgtk.exe file created after running in ubuntu)in windows.But it showing error message.How can i make to portable in both linux and windows?

The er开发者_JAVA技巧ror message is:

when i click the firstgtk.exe file, a command prompt has come.It is blank. At the same moment microsoft message(send Error report or don't send):

firstgtk has encountered a problem and needs to close.

When i click don't send button, command prompt and message box are gone.

Mono compiles down to CIL code and is completely portable to .NET or Mono on other platforms. I can compile my C# code on a Mac and run the resulting EXE on Linux or Windows under either .NET or Mono.

Without the actual error message we can only guess the issue here. That said, in my experience, the most common reasons an application written in Mono on Linux/UNIX would create an error on Windows are pathnames with platform specific path separators or case sensitivity issues. The Windows file system is not case sensitive but they are on Linux/UNIX.

Another possibility is that you are using Mono on one platform and trying to run it on .NET on the other. Mono ships with a number of libraries that are not present in .NET on Windows.

Actually, I guess a final possibility is that GTK# is a common way to produce GUI code on Mono. GTK# relies on the GTK+ C library being present which is very common on Linux but unlikely on Windows unless it has been explicitly installed.

We really need to know what the error message was.

If you're using Gtk#, your app is portable between Windows and Linux. My guess is that you don't have Gtk# installed correctly (or at all?) on Windows. You can download from here. As of this time the latest version is 2.12.10.

Your code should be portable between Linux and Windows. Alas, the binaries are not. ...

Edit: As commenters have pointed out, Mono does produce and use PE executables, though other issues may limit portability.