[Mono-devel-list] Hardware Requirements (Porting)

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

 
> I'm new to the list, fairly new to mono, and definitely a newbie when
> it comes to porting.  I'm an expert J2EE developer, intermediate .NET
> developer, and rusty C developer.  Lately, I've been working primarily
> in the embedded C arena, and would love to be able to port mono to a
> target platform.   I'm not necessarily interested in a JIT runtime
> compiler, but rather just interested in having the ability to compile
> c# to a native application.   

Mono today does not support generating a standalone executable.  But
we can pre-compile the code to avoid any JITing if that is what you
want.

You still need the original image, and the precompiled image though.


>  not it would be possible.  What is the minimum system requirements
> for porting mono?  I'm looking for a recommendation (yeah or nah)
> given the following specs (and given your experiences):
>  
> - 166 MHz (MIPS) 32 bit RISC Processor
> - 16 Mb DRAM
> - 4 Mb Graphic Dram
> - 4 Mb Flash EPROM
>  
> If possible can someone give me an idea about the level of difficulty
> and time estimate (minus the reading - which I know is substantial. 
> btw. I have a comp. eng. background, with hardware, assembly lang, os
> dev, experience)

You might want to read the porting document:

	http://www.go-mono.com/porting.html