[Mono-dev] Latest Native Client Mono work - ready for review/pull

[Elijah Taylor]

Hi,

Just sending a friendly ping for this.  It's been a couple weeks with no
movement.

-Elijah


On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Elijah Taylor <elijahtaylor at google.com>wrote:

> FYI: I've rebased these changes into an easier to review pull request
> here: https://github.com/mono/mono/pull/540
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Elijah Taylor <elijahtaylor at google.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello Mono friends,
>>
>> I've just put up a pull request for the latest in NaCl Mono changes:
>> https://github.com/mono/mono/pull/538
>>
>> As mentioned in the description, this does represent two years worth of
>> changes, but it's still relatively small.  If it would be easier to review
>> in parts I'm open to it (though I don't know if there is a logical
>> separation to do that), and I can answer any questions here or in the pull
>> request.
>>
>> One thing not explicitly mentioned in the pull request:
>>
>> The NaCl Mono build is unnecessarily onerous and only works on Linux.
>>  We're really abusing autotools/configure badly for this target.  If we
>> could get this to look more like one of the other cross-target mono builds,
>> could spit out shared libraries, and could run the test suite like NaCl
>> Mono does now, it would be greatly appreciated. See the linked doc for full
>> details:
>> https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/document/d/1Jd_4M7mlmxF8daVbepAy_8RKYcRbhifXanRYyBKkVa4/pub
>>
>> An alternate proposal is that NaCl Mono could build without invoking
>> autotools and roll its own build.  This would obviously not be great from
>> a maintenance standpoint, but maybe it could be automated from the normal
>> configure and Makefiles.  Any input on improving the build is helpful.
>>
>> We do have a continuous build that tests NaCl Mono and builds release
>> packages that are bundled with the NaCl SDK.  See it in action here:
>> http://build.chromium.org/p/client.nacl.sdk.mono/console.  I'd really
>> like to see my changes integrated into mono upstream and then target actual
>> Mono releases for release with the NaCl SDK, and also the Mono team
>> could continuously build NaCl targets.  If the build system for NaCl Mono
>> is improved, it is entirely possible most people could download the NaCl
>> SDK and compile Mono from source, which would be really great.
>>
>> -Elijah
>>
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