Where can I download the REAL MonoDevelop Windows binaries?

Question

The monodevelop.com website just takes me to this "Xamarin Studio" thing that has severe restrictions on the usage of the free version, and pricing that's almost as bad as Visual Studio on the paid versions! Is MonoDevelop for Windows dead? All I want to do is develop a GTK# application without installing Linux!

Solution 1

There's still an .msi of version 3.0.6 up for download on SourceForge, if you really need version 4 you'll have to build it yourself.

Solution 2

You do not have to pay to use Xamarin Studio to develop GTK# applications. There are no limitations whatsoever (except your imagination!) on what you can create with Xamarin Studio for the desktop.

You only have to pay if you want to develop applications for Android (and even for Android apps there is a free Starter edition).

Solution 3

Honestly, it is a real pain in the butt to build MonoDevelop from the source or even to install on some platforms.

I did a lot of research and worked out for hours but still could not manage to build MonoDevelop and at the end of the day Decided to use SharpDevelop 4.3 (http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/) instead and I gotta tell everybody that SharpDevelop is easy peasy to install. There are other alternatives too like Webbo, QuickSharp and Xamarin Studio but I haven't tried all of them.

If it is that easy to build MonoDevelop they would have build by them self and put an exe or a msi file or even a zip file with all the binaries and dependencies to download.

They have a similar problem which is quite annoying when it comes to installing the latest version of MonoDevelop on Ububtu or PC BSD.

First thing, I reckon its Git's problem but every time I downloaded the MonoDevelop source from its Git repo, the zip file is smaller than the real size and always corrupted.

Anyway I tried a few times and managed to download the source. Then I downloaded and installed all the prerequisites.

I could not even open the Solution file in Microsoft Visual C# 2010 x86 (express).

Then I decided to build using MonoDevelop 3.0.6 as it is suggested in http://monodevelop.com/Developers/Building_MonoDevelop

When I tried to install MonoDevelop 3.0.6 it keeps on saying that I need to install GTK# 2.12.9 or newer even if I have already installed GTK# 2.12.22 (the latest one).

At the end I was really frustrated and decided to use SharpDevelop 4.3 as an alternative to M$ Visual Studio and MoNo-Develop.