Running C# Windows Forms 64 bit application

[Tobiasz931]

Hi,

I'm trying to run C# application made for Windows using Windows Forms on Mac. The problem is I need to use 64 bit mode as it uses a lot of memory (it has to).
I can compile and run it on MacOSX using Mac's mono, but only in 32 bit mode. 64 bit mode crashes instantly as Windows Forms are not ported to Mac.

I can also run it with Wine, even with Wine64, using Wine-mono, but it only runs it in 32 bit mode.
I've installed Wine devel 2.11, Wine-mono 4.7 and both x86 and x86_64 wine gecko 2.47.
There's libmono-2.0-x86_64.dll, but I can even rename it and it changes nothing. However if I rename it to libmono-2.0-x86.dll and use it instead of regular x86 one - it simply can't load mono.

How do I make it use mono in 64bit mode?

Thanks in advance!

[madewokherd]

If you compile your exe for the x64 platform (-platform:x64 if you're using mcs), Wine should load it in a 64-bit process.

Ideally, the Wine loader would recognize an 'anycpu' .NET executable and load it using the native architecture, but currently it's not able to do this.

[Tobiasz931]

Thanks, I compiled it only for x64 platform now, but if I try to run it with Wine64 I get an error:
err:process:start_process L"path\\to\\.exe" doesn't have an entry point, it cannot be executed

Does it mean it's not fully implemented?

[madewokherd]

Can you try with Wine Staging? It has some patches that might help with this case.