Compiling Mono (C#) on YDL?
Greg Hamilton
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Mon, 6 Sep 2004 10:15:56 +1000
Mono is not C#. It's an implementation of parts of the .NET standard.
It includes a CLR compatible runtime, a C# compiler, large parts of the
.NET api and some interesting non-Microsofty things like Gtk#, which is
a wrapper for the GTK/Gnome widget library and works nicely with Glade.
A great deal, but not all, of .NET including the specification for the
CLR and the C# language has been submitted to ECMA for standardisation.
I've built the Mono runtime, the C# compiler (mcs), Gtk# and
MonoDevelop, an IDE for use with Mono, from source on a G3 iBook
running PPC Linux. I'm using Debian so your mileage may vary.
The trick is to use the source tarballs available here:
http://www.mono-project.com/downloads/
Getting the CVS sources to build is diabolical. I think some of the
source is in C# and depends on a C# compiler which means you need Mono
installed to build Mono.
I'm fairly sure that if you just build the 'Mono Runtime 1.0.1' package
from the link above you'll end up with a complete working Mono, C#,
etc.
The gtk# packages are available here:
http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/
Good luck,
Greg
On 04/09/2004, at 1:12 AM, Brian Gilman wrote:
> Hello Derick,
>
> Actually, yes, you are wrong. C# was submitted to ECMA as a standard
> and MS, while not playing completely nicely, has made is possible for
> MANY languages to interoperate with C#. I was referring to Novell and
> Miguel Icaza's Mono (monkey in espanol) project that is an
> implementation of C# for linux (www.go-mono.com). In fact, their is a
> strong developer community around the JIT (that's just in time
> compiler) for PPC. Both IBM/Motorola and apple have been very helpful
> in providing details around the details of PPC assembler. Mono (that's
> the open source, C# runtime, mcs - is the mono compiler for c#) runs
> on AMD64, x86 Linux, and (supposedly) linuxppc. I have mono (open
> source free C# runtime and compiler) working on my linux (Intel) as
> well as my OS X boxes (not intel but IBM/Motorola) and wanted to know
> if anyone had the chance to try and compile the source on YDL.
>
> Thanks for responding though. Perhaps you should go to the Mono site
> and take a look for more information about this fantastic project, its
> goals and vision for the future of Linux etc.
>
>
> Best,
>
> -B
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> On Sep 3, 2004, at 10:37 AM, Derick Centeno wrote:
>
>> I may be wrong but I don't believe C# is used in the Mac universe at
>> all, even within the various versions of Linux for the PPC. If you
>> are
>> noting ppc errors and the like it means that C# is looking for INTEL
>> or
>> INTEL COMPATIBLE processors to run on. In short, C#, is NOT a bone
>> fide
>> computer language standard like Fortran, C or C++ or even Objective-C,
>> but a proprietary language which Microsoft created for its own uses in
>> making its applications work together more smoothly on Microsoft's
>> .NET
>> framework.
>>
>> If you don't believe me fine...check www.fatbrain.com you'll note a
>> listing of professional programming publications which discuss these
>> things in as much detail as you or anyone can possibly handle. The
>> arguments are pithy and intense, pro/con and very detailed...but it
>> all
>> adds up the same as far as C# is concerned.
>>
>> Microsoft is merely the biggest gorilla in the market...not the
>> smartest
>> or the most scientific.
>>
>> Besides at last count the compilers even within YDL could handle as
>> many
>> as 5 or 6 different standard computer languages, even
>> assembler...which
>> have each been proven as having clearer syntax, better accuracy and so
>> on than C#! Why bother with C# at all? As usual the answer to that
>> depends on what you are trying to do.
>>
>> There is a different, solution, entirely but that means using OS X
>> which
>> I don't have but I do keep up with the information regarding it. I
>> believe the current version, and I KNOW the upcoming version -- Tiger
>> --
>> has very intense improvements which make learning C# completely
>> unnecessary. The OS functions as ALL OS are supposed (except
>> Microsoft)
>> to and handle networks in the background (without getting users
>> distracted from their jobs) according to rules set up by a Sys.Admin.
>> Oh well... Problem solved...Next!
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 09:49, Brian Gilman wrote:
>>> Hello Everyone,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to compile Mono (from cvs) on my YDL box. Has anyone had
>>> success doing this? I'm getting some errors about a certain ppc
>>> structure and would like to know if others have seen the same
>>> problem?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> -B
>>
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