[Mono-dev] Mono 2.6.1 and HPPA-HPUX

[Zoltan Varga]

Hi,

   The mono hppa port is incomplete/out-of-date. It would need a few months
of work to make
it work again.

                Zoltan

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Krueger, Ben (MSGD Calgary) <
ben.krueger at hp.com> wrote:

>  I am trying to get mono compiled and running on a HPPA HPUX machine, but
> I don't have the knowledge of the architecture to properly fill in some
> information.  A long time ago, apparently, there was a HPUX interpreter, but
> the "interpreter is dead" and I wouldn't like the speed of it anyway.
>
>
>
> I talked with the people at Plastic, but they only have done some Itanium
> work and not HPUX.
>
>
>
> There are pieces in the existing code base that refer to HPUX and HPPA, but
> it doesn't seem that it is complete.
>
>
>
> Memory barrier functions seem to be missing, so I just copied one to
> resolve the symbol.
>
>
>
> I have got everything compiling up until it creates and tries to run
> genmdesc.  It fails at that point with a core dump.
>
>
>
> Has anyone done something like this with HPPA?  Is there an older version
> that may work?  I am willing to go to the interpreter version in the mean
> time if I have to… Which version of mono was that understood to work?
>
>
>
> Thank you for any help you may have.  I have a project that I  made
> commitments on based on statements on the mono website that have proved to
> be inaccurate and now I'm severely behind schedule.  All I need to be able
> to do is read .xml files and send web services calls.   I am now looking at
> rewriting my application in Perl, but I won't have time to meet my
> deadlines…
>
>
>
> Ben Krueger
>
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