[Mono-devel-list] Mono on MAC OS X.

[Urs C Muff]

Did you use boehm gc 6.3 alpha 6 with --enable-threads=pthreads?

On May 8, 2004, at 9:14 PM, Ryan Gregg wrote:

> Urs,
> I'm using the beta 1 source downloads, and compiled mono using Boehm 
> without ICU.  However, when I try to build MCS (mostly just to test 
> out how well mono is working), I get a similar error in the same 
> place:
>
> mcs   -d:NET_1_1 -d:ONLY_1_1 -g /target:exe /out:mcs.exe 
> AssemblyInfo.cs anonymous.cs assign.cs attribute.cs driver.cs 
> cs-tokenizer.cs cfold.cs class.cs codegen.cs const.cs constant.cs 
> convert.cs decl.cs delegate.cs enum.cs ecore.cs expression.cs 
> flowanalysis.cs genericparser.cs iterators.cs literal.cs location.cs 
> modifiers.cs namespace.cs parameter.cs pending.cs report.cs 
> rootcontext.cs statement.cs support.cs typemanager.cs symbolwriter.cs 
> tree.cs CryptoConvert.cs cs-parser.cs
>
> Unhandled Exception: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference 
> not set to an instance of an object
> make[2]: *** [mcs.exe] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
>
> It certainly appears to be a problem with the GC, because if I disable 
> the GC in the same fashion that Zdravko did, it gets past that 
> statement and continues on (it's still running, but so far no 
> problems).  I used gc6.3alpha5 when I was building everything.  Is 
> there a preferred version of Boehm to use with Mono in beta 1 (or at 
> least one that actually works)?
>
> Also, I remember a while back there was a group of people working on 
> the Mac OS issues with mono.  I haven't heard anything from that group 
> in a while though, anyone know if they are still around and if they 
> have a separate mailing list or if they're just being quiet?
>
> Thanks!
> Ryan Gregg
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