Ngen

First of all, I'm trying to get a .NET program to run on a computer without the framework installed. Before everyone yells "IT CANT BE DONE!" I just want to ask if anyone has used NGEN
to compile the CLR it runs on top of into native Win32 code. It seems this works ok on the computer you run ngen on, since it compiles specific processor info, etc. of that machine _only_. is there any kind of compiler out there that will take a .net program and turn it into generic x86 machine code? what about debugging the whole program and just getting assembly for it and recompile that way with a standard C compiler?

any ideas? or am i better off just dropping .NET and using the win32 api directly (or something like FLTK )

Although I've not used it before, based on the article you linked, you still need the .NET framework.