[Mono-dev] Crash course on bringing .NET open sourced code to Mono.

[Greg Young]

What's the plan on where there are differences in behavior? An example of
this would be uri matching. I would guess it makes sense to use the ms
stuff moving forward, how will changes in current behavior be communicated

On Saturday, November 15, 2014, Miguel de Icaza <miguel at xamarin.com> wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> Sami reached out to me, and was wondering how to get started in bringing
> some code to Mono, in particular WCF to Mono.   So I wrote this small guide
> for newcomers.
>
> I would say it takes a couple of steps:
>
>    - Build your own local version of Mono on Linux.
>    - Make sure it works "mcs" should be able to run after installing it.
>    - Run a trivial self-hosted WCF server/client
>    - Make a trivial change to the WCF class library, and install this
>    version to test you can make changes locally and have them run:
>       - cd mono/mcs/class/System.ServiceModel
>       - Make changes
>       - make install
>       - Run your test again in another window
>       - Repeat
>    - Make sure you can run the test suite:
>       - cd mono/mcs/class/System.ServiceModel
>       - make run-test-local
>
> Once you are ready, you can start importing code.   Ideally, you want to
> go for high-value targets: the most buggy parts of Mono's stack (you can
> check bugzilla for reports on memory usage, bugs).   Or you can pick a
> missing feature.
>
> To import code, modify the relevant ".sources" file in the
> System.ServiceModel directory (where you ran the test) and replace a local
> file, with a reference to the "referencesource".
>
> Chances are, you will need to make changes to the "referencesource" code,
> since a lot of it is Windows specific.
>
> Miguel
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Sami Ben Grine <
> SBen-Grine at axarosenberg.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','SBen-Grine at axarosenberg.com');>> wrote:
>
>>  Sweet – is there anything I can do to make progress?
>>
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>>
>> I am somewhat ignorant about Mono but I am pretty ok with .NET and Linux.
>>
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>> thanks
>>
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>>

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