[Mono-dev] full AOT support

[Rodrigo Kumpera]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Jonathan Shore <jonathan.shore at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I was looking at the page:  http://www.mono-project.com/AOT, discussing
> AOT compilation.   I am looking to perform full AOT on some applications
> (mono --aot=full app), but at least on OSX received an error indicating
> that full AOT not supported on the platform.
>
> Questions:
>
>
>    1. what platforms is --aot=full supported on?
>
>
linux/amd64, linux/x86, iOS/arm and ppc/? are the supported configurations.


>
>    1. is there still an issue with compiling code with generics (I
>    suspect the web page is out of date?)
>
>
Yes, it does.


>
>    1. does this combine dll dependencies and convert into a single
>    executable?
>
> No, it produces one object file per assembly, you're responsible for
calling the linker on the result.


> I need to get full compilation with no JIT dependencies for linux and
> windows.   Can do without osx support.
>


Why do you think you need FullAOT? Its a tecnology targeted at environments
that won't support JIT. Use simple AOT if you can.
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