[Mono-dev] Mono for Symbian

[erithion at gmail.com]

Hello Andreas,

>  From my view, the Symbian tool chain relies heavily on Windows which
> makes it difficult for large parts of the Mono community to assist  
> with such a port. At least the simulation will not run on non-Windows
> so testing has to be done either on Windows or on a Symbian device  
> (which does not provide a console to read assertion failures or  
> exceptions). This decision needs to be made at the start of the port,
> and it's not the only open question I see:

> * Does cross-compilation to Symbian need be limited to Windows  
> systems or is there a way to allow this from "any" system? (there are
> some attempts of Linux/Mac ports but are they usable? see below)

> * How do we integrate such a cross-compilation into Mono's configure/ 
> make process? (on Windows for compiling regular apps an incompatible  
> Perl-based build system is used; for other systems this would need to
> be done manually someway)

> * Is Symbian OS even able to run Mono? (Posix, threading etc.)

Recently i found a short review of such Symbian port of .NET Compact
Framework. It's an interesting experience.
http://dotnet.zcu.cz/NET_2005/Papers%5CFull%5CA73-full.pdf
Maybe some of your questions will have its answers.

A while ago, Andreas, you were saying you tried to get HelloWorld app
worked on emulator.
What happened with this project? Is it possible to look at it?


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 erithion                            mailto:erithion at gmail.com