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Creating a Mac.app file on Windows using Mono

We have a team that built the agent in Mono using MonoDevelop on Mac, and we want to build it with the rest of our native C # sources in Windows, but I cannot get either msbuild or mono to build the .app file on Windows . I get an error that the proect type is not supported. Other projects that were created in Mono are just wonderful, this is just an .app issue that gives us problems.

Has anyone had success creating Mac / Mono.app files on Windows? Or is there a good alternative to the .app file to run a service type application on a Mac?

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Despite the fact that MonoDevelop on Windows and OSX you cannot create .app on Windows - Windows does not have any of the necessary libraries (to compile your application on OSX you need to install Xcode for MonoDevelop)

You can compile any non-user interface DLL on Windows and then link them to an application on OSX, but there is probably no use for this if you don't need to run unit tests from Windows or something like that . The Mono project is focused on porting .NET development to OSX, and not vice versa.

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