[Mono-dev] Compacting GC

[Rodrigo Kumpera]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Miguel de Icaza <miguel at novell.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> > The first thing we'd need is to be able to build it.
> >
> > This way we can pass our test suite using SGen and most likely detect a
> > good number of potential bugs.
>
> Exactly what happened?
>
> Yesterday I reconfigured my Mono like this:
>
>        ./configure --with-gc=sgen
>
> And Mono built without a glitch, and that is when I replied something
> like "Did you try to build it?".
>
> Without an error log it is hard to determine what is happening to you.
> A fresh checkout with a fresh configure works for me.
>

It's worth pointing out that SGEN won't build on windows or OSX at the
moment
since it requires a working __thread implementation. Mark has been working
on
lifting this requirement but the code haven't been committed yet.
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