Mono Development Environment on Win 7 64bit gmcs hello.cs -pkg:gtk-sharp-2.0 can't find files

Question

I downloaded Mono and installed it on Win 7 64bit

I went to this site to follow the instructions http://www.mono-project.com/Mono_Basics

I opened up the mono co

Answer 1

These were helpful answers for pointing out the root cause of the problem. However, the simplest solution by far is to install Mono into a folder that doesn't have spaces in the name. While installing, just select something like "C:\SDK\Mono". Problem solved, and no funky work-arounds necessary.