[Mono-dev] Mono for Windows test build

Thu Feb 12 12:58:49 UTC 2015

2015-02-11 18:21 GMT+01:00 Andoni Morales <ylatuya at gmail.com>:
>
> First of all, thanks for taking care of the Windows installers and proving an updated version with the latest release :)
>
> The wrapper shell scripts for the .bat tools (al.bat, xbuild.bat, etc...) in this new installer are using cygpath to convert paths, which makes them unusable in a msys/mingw environment. cygpath should be used conditionally when used within cygwin and it's not needed when used with msys.
>
> Since all of them are using "cygpath -w /path/to/dir", for now as a workaround I have created a shell script named cygpath that does:
> #!/bin/bash
> echo $2
>
> Another improvements for the installers would be to set an environment variable with the installation path like MONO_ROOT, as it's easier to use it than gathering this info from the registry.
>
> On Windows XP, with SP3 and the VC redist package installed, mono.exe and mono-sgen.exe won't start with the following error:
> mono.exe is not a valid Win32 application.
>
> Other binaries like pkg-config.exe or mprof-report.exe can be run correctly.

I fixed the issue with mono.exe and mono-sgen.exe with:
EDITBIN mono.exe /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS,5.01 /OSVERSION:5.1
So it looks like the link flags are not using the correct os version.

In my previous mail I was probably not clear enough about the issue
with the .bat files. They are not being called directly from the
msys/mingw shell but it's xbuild calling them, so xbuild can't be used
with this new .bat using cygpath.

Cheers,
Andoni

>
> Cheers,
> Andoni
>
> 2014-12-01 20:41 GMT+01:00 Alexander Köplinger <alex.koeplinger at outlook.com>:
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>> Hey Jo, I tried it and it installed fine for me.
>> However, the version is currently set to 3.12.1 in https://github.com/directhex/newbuilder/blob/master/resources/build.bat and https://github.com/directhex/newbuilder/blob/master/resources/bat/setmonopath.bat, I guess we should change that to 3.12.0.
>>
>> Btw. build.bat could be integrated into the bash files quite easily I think (for consistency), it just invokes msbuild.
>>
>> The BCL assemblies are taken from the 3.10 MDK installer as far as I can see?
>>
>> -- Alex
>>
>> > Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 17:44:51 +0000
>> > From: directhex at apebox.org
>> > To: mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
>> > Subject: [Mono-dev] Mono for Windows test build
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>> > Hi everyone
>> >
>> > Following on from lots of recent discussion, I've got the first test
>> > build of Mono for Windows which I'd describe as "usable".
>> >
>> > This is based on the mono-3.12.0-branch branch on github.
>> >
>> > Please report success or failure with it, as I'm not a Windows expert.
>> > Especially interested in success/failure from Windows embedders.
>> >
>> > I'll get the scripts involved in building this stuff (so you can try
>> > it locally, developery types) added to github.com/mono/release.git by
>> > the end of tomorrow.
>> >
>> > https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bz6-k9ELOQf3YTE1RHV3Y0dNaFU&authuser=0
>> >
>> > == Headlines ==
>> >
>> > * Runtime compiled with Microsoft Visual Studio 2013, for extra speed
>> > * SGen by default
>> > * Includes Gtk#, F#, IronPython, Boo, IronRuby (as per Mono MDK for Mac)
>> > * .lib files for libmono (Boehm) and libmonosgen (SGen)
>> > * Installs side-by-side with old 3.2.3 installer
>> >
>> > == Known Issues ==
>> >
>> > * No policy files for Gtk# (but who has Gtk#2.10 apps these days?)
>> > * Works from cmd.exe or Cygwin, but not MSYS
>> > * FSharp does not run from cmd.exe, fails with a timezone error (works
>> > in Cygwin)
>> > * Xamarin Studio does not run from cmd.exe with "mono
>> > XamarinStudio.exe" (works in Cygwin)
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