[Mono-list] Re: Mono and the OS/X Port (John Duncan)

[John Duncan]

Ok, I just found out what was going on that was making my poor mint 
crash. IntegerFormatter is not working. So I have to diagnose that 
problem.  I'll be so happy if I can figure it out tonight... :)

Cheers and beers, all

On Tuesday, September 10, 2002, at 04:48 PM, Steve Newman wrote:

>> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 15:41:31 -0500
>> Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Mono and the OS/X Port
>> Cc: mono-list@ximian.com
>> To: "Steve Mentzer" <steve.mentzer@mullinconsulting.com>
>> From: John Duncan <jddst19@mac.com>
>>
>> Yes, you're right. I am working on it. Here's where I am:
>>
>> I have a PB project building mint and libmono (actually, a Framework I
>> called mono-cocoa). Mint seems to run but I haven't made it able to run
>> mcs.exe. This gives me the tough task of narrowing down mcs.exe by
>> building it on Linux until I find where the weakness in mint is.
>> Nonetheless, I think I have most of the bugs in the native interface
>> worked out and it should only be a matter of time.
>>
>> I would appreciate help anywhere along the line. Let me know and I'll
>> try to package up what I've got. It's a little bit different from the
>> basic mono build and it's not production quality.
>>
>> Anyhow, my goal is to eventually provide a usable runtime for OS X that
>> acts in quite a native capacity. I'd like to adopt something similar to
>> the approach used for MRJ. This means that the Mono runtime should
>> eventually be able to tie in to the Obj-C Cocoa objects and there will
>> also be a packager for wrapping up Mono applications in a .app bundle.
>>
>> I've been working really slowly, though, because I'm on vacation. 
>> Having
>> someone else egging me along will probably help me to move more 
>> quickly.
>
> Consider yourself egged.  I would LOVE to get a version of Mono that 
> ran on the Mac, however fragile it might be.
>
> I've made a couple of attempts to get the sources building on the Mac 
> so I could help out.  Unfortunately, while I have plenty of Mac 
> development experience (18 years, actually), my Unix skills don't seem 
> to be up to the task of building Mono without clear step-by-step 
> instructions.  I keep getting lost trying to install some required 
> library or tool.  If someone could get me past this hurdle, I'd be 
> happy to help with debugging, or with building Cocoa glue.  (I don't 
> know much about Cocoa either, just Carbon, but I know where to go to 
> learn about Cocoa.)
>
> -- Steve
>
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