[gdal-dev] CSHARP: Proposal to Remove Mono from the CMAKE build scripts

[Andrew Bell]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 12:27 PM Paul Harwood via gdal-dev
<gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
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> 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.
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> https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/14368
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> The CMAKE build scripts grandfathered in support for this from the previous build system.
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> 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.

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Andrew Bell
andrew.bell.ia at gmail.com