[Mono-dev] Building Mono on Linux/Alpha

[Servey Tikhonov]

Hello Zoltan,

I am curious what to do next. :) Right now mono on Linux/Alpha passes 
almost all basic tests (I haven't tried arrays.cs yet).
I tried to bootstrap the compiler and of cause it failed with following:
ALPHA_TODO: [mono_arch_get_vcall_slot_addr] code: 0x20003fd288c regs: 
0x11fc14ec8
** (../class/lib/net_1_1_bootstrap/mcs.exe:2346): DEBUG: ALPHA_DEBUG: 
mono_arch_patch_callsite is called.
Patch callsite at 0x20003fd2988 to 0x20003fd2de8
** (../class/lib/net_1_1_bootstrap/mcs.exe:2346): DEBUG: ALPHA_DEBUG: 
mono_arch_get_vcall_slot_addr is called.
ALPHA_TODO: [mono_arch_get_vcall_slot_addr] code: 0x20003fd28a8 regs: 
0x11fc14ec8

Unhandled Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: An exception 
was thrown by the type initializer for Mono.CSharp.Location ---> 
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance 
of an object
  at Mono.CSharp.Location.AddCheckpoint (Int32 file, Int32 row) [0x202ca308]
  at Mono.CSharp.Location..ctor (Int32 row, Int32 column) [0x202ca308]
  at Mono.CSharp.Location..ctor (Int32 row) [0x202ca308]
  at Mono.CSharp.Location..cctor () [0x202ca308] --- End of inner 
exception stack trace ---

** (../class/lib/net_1_1_bootstrap/mcs.exe:2346): DEBUG: ALPHA_DEBUG: 
mono_arch_find_jit_info is called.
** (../class/lib/net_1_1_bootstrap/mcs.exe:2346): DEBUG: ALPHA_DEBUG: 
mono_arch_free_jit_tls_data is called.
make[1]: *** [../class/lib/default/mcs.exe] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/work/mono/mcs/mcs'
make: *** [do-all] Error 2

Well, I didn't expect it to start working right away. :) I guess I 
should be start looking at mcs/tests directory and try to run it
one by one and see how it goes.
How did you bootstrap a compiler? I guess it was some smaller/simpler 
version. I am using one from mono 1.1.13 version.

Thank you,
Sergey.

tsv_at_solvo.ru
Solvo Ltd.