[Mono-dev] scratchbox devkit?

[Zoltan Varga]

On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Liam Staskawicz <lstask at gmail.com> wrote:

>  I think I understand. So if I were interested in both running normal
> assemblies on the host *and* creating AOT images for a target platform, I
> would simply ./configure and build 2 separate mono builds on the host?
>
>
Yes

   Zoltan

> Thanks for the quick replies btw!
>
> Liam
>
> On Saturday, May 7, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Zoltan Varga wrote:
>
> Cross AOT means that the resulting runtime can't run code, it will only
> support the
> --aot command line option, creating an AOT image which can be run on the
> target platform.
> I'm not sure this is what you are looking for.
>
>                  Zoltan
>
> On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Liam Staskawicz <lstask at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Interesting! I haven't found any docs mentioning cross AOT, but that
> could be exactly what I'm looking for.
>
> Does this mean that if I specify armv5tel-unknown-linux-gnueabi* as a
> target to ./configure, that any time I make an AOT build it will target armv5tel?
> Would I be able to execute bytecode normally with the resultant mono binary
> on the host? I guess I'm not fully clear why I would specify the cross AOT
> target to the ./configure script for mono itself. Are there other
> implications to a normal mono binary that setting the target flag would
> have?
>
> Thanks again,
> Liam
>
> On Friday, May 6, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Zoltan Varga wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>   That code is actually for cross AOT, i.e. using a runtime running on x86
> to generate AOT code for arm, for example. I.e. it checks host and target,
> and not host and build.
>
>                      Zoltan
>
> On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Liam Staskawicz <lstask at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   Actually, I just had a chance to look at the ./configure script and it
> looks like there is a fair amount of support in there for cross compiling:
> the targets powerpc64-ps3-linux-gnu, powerpc64-xbox360-linux-gnu, x86_64-*-nacl,
> armv7l-unknown-linux-gnueabi*, and armv5tel-unknown-linux-gnueabi* all
> seem to have entries in the ` if test "x$host" != "x$target"; ` condition.
>
> I was wondering if you could provide a bit more detail about the state of
> support for these targets (happily, mine is on the list). Are these not
> actively maintained, or not known to work, or perhaps covered by some other
> disclaimer?
>
> Thanks!
> Liam
>
>   On Wednesday, May 4, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Liam Staskawicz wrote:
>
>  Ah, also - http://www.mono-project.com/Mono:ARM recommends using
> scratchbox to build mono for ARM. Would be nice to clarify there as
> well, if possible.
>
> Thanks,
> Liam
>
> On Wednesday, May 4, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Liam Staskawicz wrote:
>
>  OK, thanks!
>
> Liam
>
> On Wednesday, May 4, 2011 at 2:05 AM, Zoltan Varga wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>   We recommend compiling on the device itself if possible, using distcc for
> example. Our configure scripts etc. are not really written with
> cross-compilation in mind.
>
>                       Zoltan
>
> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Liam Staskawicz <lstask at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>
> I'm just getting set up trying to cross compile mono for an ARM target
> using scratchbox. The wiki page at http://www.mono-project.com/Scratchboxmentions a mono devkit, but the only address is to
> svn://anonsvn.mono-project.com which now redirects to github, and I can't
> find the subproject mentioned (garmono?) anywhere in the sources on github.
>
> Did this component not survive the transition to github? Anybody have any
> tips on where to find it if it still exists?
>
> Of course this is coming from the perspective of somebody searching high
> and low for info, but if the maintainer is still around it would be nice to
> update the wiki page, even to say that it's out of date :)
>
> Thanks!
> Liam
>
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