FW: Is mono 0.29 on FreeBSD 5.1 / 4.9 working for you?

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 12:27, John Merryweather Cooper wrote:
> I'm throwing freebsd-gnome and Joe on because this is of wide interest:
> 
> My primary interest in lang/mono is getting the latest version of 
> comms/gfax to work (I'm the maintainer).  gfax doesn't use sockets (and 
> it won't compile with the current versions of lang/mono and 
> x11-toolkits/gtk-sharp), so I'm waiting for the gfax Beta to catch up.
> 
> I think part of the problem is that mono is using a "lite" version of 
> the mcs compiler (without the C# runtime included in mcs).  I think the 
> "lite" version makes certain assumptions about the platform it's on that 
> are prejudicial to FreeBSD.  :)  However, porting mcs is proving a 
> little difficult because:  1) the full mcs compiler is not self-hosting 
> (you need a special boot-up mcs to build) 2) the configuration scripts 
> seem to be a tad linux-centric.
> 
> I believe if we can get a working port for lang/mcs, that we'll be able 
> to fix problems like sockets at the C# runtime level.  I believe trying 
> to fix these at the mono runtime level will be frustrating.
> 
> But, your mileage may vary . . .
> 
> Yes, I would like playing with anything that builds using mono:  it will 
> make the learning curve less steep when the general release version of 
> gfax hits.

My hope is the new OS X/FreeBSD mono project will get off the ground,
and the issues with boehm-gc threading on FreeBSD will be addressed. 
Once that is resolved, Mono porting on FreeBSD should become much
easier.

In the meantime, if people are into fixing what other bugs may exist
with mono on FreeBSD, I urge you to configure mono without garbage
collection.  Yes, it will be a pig, but it should eliminate some
low-level problems and allow one to focus on other runtime and compile
time issues.

Joe

> 
> jmc
> 
> Mary A. Cooper wrote:
> 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stephen Gutknecht (IPCoast) [mailto:Stephen at IPCoast.com] 
> > Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 7:44 AM
> > To: johnmary at adelphia.net
> > Subject: Is mono 0.29 on FreeBSD 5.1 / 4.9 working for you?
> > 
> > 
> > Hi John,
> > 
> > I saw you had some recently activity with Mono on FreeBSD.
> > 
> > I wanted to see if you had any luck getting network socket applications to
> > work?   We tried jabber-net and it will not work on FreeBSD but works fine
> > with Mono on Linux and  Win32.
> > 
> > We believe that the FreeBSD socket interfaces are not correctly mating with
> > Mono.
> > 
> > We can give you instructions on how to compile / try jabber-net on Mono if
> > you would like to help troubleshoot.
> > 
> > Thank you.
> > 
> >   Stephen Gutknecht
> > 
> 
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