[Mono-devel-list] Re: Mono & PPC

[st at stereolyzer.net]

Hello, 

> > Can anyone tell me what the status is of 
> > porting Mono
> > to the PPC?

> Yes.	Mono as an interpreter works on PPC.  
> Please post to the list any problems you might 
> have getting it up and running.

After reading about progress on the PowerPC port in the 0.26 release
notes I downloaded and rpm --rebuild't the rh9 srpm on my ydl3.0.

Unfortunately it stopped giving the error:

gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../.. -I/usr/include/glib-2.0
-I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0
-I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -DGC_LINUX_THREADS -DMONO_USE_EXC_TABLES
-D_GNU_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -fexceptions -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -g
-Wall -Wunused -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs
-Wpointer-arith -Wno-cast-qual -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -c mini.c
-MT mini.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/mini.TPlo  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/mini.lo
In file included from inssel.h:18,
		 from mini.c:42:
mini-arch.h:7:22: mini-ppc.h: No such file or directory
mini.c: In function `mono_emit_call_args':
mini.c:1799: warning: unused variable `i'
mini.c: In function `mono_emulate_opcode':
mini.c:1895: warning: unused variable `i'
mini.c: In function `mono_thread_start_cb':
mini.c:5821: sizeof applied to an incomplete type
mini.c:5822: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
mini.c: In function `mono_thread_attach_cb':
mini.c:5851: sizeof applied to an incomplete type
mini.c:5852: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
make[4]: *** [mini.lo] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/rpm/BUILD/mono-0.26/mono/mini'
make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/rpm/BUILD/mono-0.26/mono/mini'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/rpm/BUILD/mono-0.26/mono'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/rpm/BUILD/mono-0.26'
make: *** [all] Error 2

It would also very helpful if you could push all the rh9 srpms to the
mono archive.

Thanks for any advice, 
Robert