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Is Mono Binary Compatible with Windows?

April 26, 2017binary compatible Mono Windows

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Is Mono Binary Compatible with Windows?

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Yes, Mono is binary compatible with Windows. Which means that you can run binaries produced by .NET compilers from Microsoft and other vendors. When porting your applications, you should make sure that you test its functionality as differences in the underlying operating system and differences in the VM implementations (bugs, missing features) might affect your application. Mono does not have every .NET 1.1 API implemented (see the Mono release notes for Mono 1.0) and when executing a binary from Windows that consumes an unimplemented API you might get an obscure message about tokens not being found. In these cases it is useful to compile your application with Mono’s C# compiler just to ensure that you are consuming APIs that are supported. This is not a perfect solution, as some APIs in Mono throw NotImplementedExceptions in certain cases, so you still should test your application with Mono.