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

[Paul Harwood]

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, <andrew.bell.ia at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 12:27 PM Paul Harwood via gdal-dev
> <gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org> 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
> andrew.bell.ia at gmail.com
>
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