[Mono-list] Re: Mono port to other OS

[IT2003_1: Morenz, Tino]

>When porting mono, two things are important:
>*) if the jit has been ported to the wanted cpu
>*) if the os supports a correct implementation of POSIX/pthreads
>
>If both conditions are true, you'll likely need only small tweaks to the
>configure files and maybe the signal handling mechanism, this means just
>a few days of work.

Here just some things I have experienced so far:

1) The whole garbage collector thing can be tricky as BoehmGC doesn't support every OS (although it supports quite a good share)

2) mono isn't always POSIX: e.g. the implementation of semaphores rely on the SysV IPC API which is the standard in Linux (at least I think so), however it is _not_ POSIX
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