Re: Mono 2.10.8.1 (meta-mono) Corelib not in sync with runtime...

[Alex J Lennon <ajlennon@dynamicdevices.co.uk>]

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On 09/10/2013 20:52, Ryan Kirkpatrick wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Paul Eggleton wrote:
>
>> Have you sent these fixes to the layer maintainer - Autif Khan
>> (autif.mlist@gmail.com) ? It would be good to get those integrated.
> Yes, I did shortly after my post to the list, but I have not heard any
> response.
>
> Since then I have run into some issues with Mono v2.10 itself and my
> company's existing (proprietary) code base. It is an odd issue around
> events and a complex class hierarchy that I had encountered in the past
> with Mono v2.4 (but not v2.2). I traced it down to a single change in Mono
> and backed out that change for the previous product (an embedded server).
> I did report it to the Mono list at that time, but there was no simple
> test case I could share.
>
> Anyway, I did a quick test with Mono v3.2 (from their web site on OS X)
> and the issues were no longer present. Hence, for the new product that I
> plan to use Yocto to develop, I am going to use Mono v3.2. Of course the
> current Mono layer has a lot more than we need (which is only the runtime
> and corelib, no X, xsp, etc...) but only includes support through v2.11. I
> am currently considering whether updating the existing meta-mono layer for
> v3.2 or just writing a quick recipe for just want we need from Mono.
>
> This is complicated by a quick attempt to build the existing Mono layer
> for ARM failing. The failure was on the ARM objcopy not knowing what to do
> with mcs.exe.so as it is .NET assembly wrapped as an i386 shared object.
> This was during the generation of the debug package files, so looks like
> that process needs to be tweaked to understand this special case.

Hi Ryan - I've built Mono out of meta-mono for a couple of different 
targets in the past
and am revisiting now for a mesh edge gateway we're working on here.

I see that Mono no longer seems to be building against Yocto head / 
qemux86 (for me
at least) and am considering looking at a recipe to build the current 
release of Mono
whilst I dig into why this is.

I wondered if you'd made any progress with this at all in the past few 
weeks?

Thanks / Best Regards,

Alex

> I would welcome any advice on how to proceed with Mono v3.2 recipes and
> for building on ARM. Thanks!
>
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