How do I programmatically determine if and where Mono 64 bit is installed in Windows?

Question

I found these registry settings

Assuming the user installed the Mono 64 bit MSI, can I in C# code read the registry and rely on

• 1 + 2 indicating that Mono 64 bit is installed
• 3 where the Mono lib folder is
• 4 where Mono config folder is and
• 5 where the mono-2.0-sgen.dll is located.

I am asking because

1. I did not find this documented on the Mono website (eg Mono FAQ: Technical , Install Mono on Windows , Mono Runtime Documentation , Mono Runtime Documentation )
2. Perhaps there is a better / alternative approach. (eg the GAC ... I'm not keen on the GAC but perhaps ...)

(I assume that anything under Computer\\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\WOW6432Node would be 32 bit and would not indicate 64bit mono.)

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Update I've asked on Mono-Github and here's their answer: https://github.com/mono/mono/issues/10535

Answer 1

.NET provides a series of classes for reading registry entry Here is an example of how to do that. Another example is here

In your case, the key location is number 1 from picture posted, the key is "Architecture" and it's "x64" and so on

Try that code from the above link and see if works. Some adaptation needs to be done.

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