From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 20 11:35:00 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F089B16A4CE for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 11:35:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta8.adelphia.net (mta8.adelphia.net [68.168.78.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11EC143DA9 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 11:33:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from johnmary@adelphia.net) Received: from adelphia.net ([68.169.191.32]) by mta9.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20031220172715.EUXM5224.mta9.adelphia.net@adelphia.net>; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 12:27:15 -0500 Message-ID: <3FE48678.2040006@adelphia.net> From: John Merryweather Cooper User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen@IPCoast.com References: <000301c3c71c$7f4d2600$0300a8c0@DOVY2> In-Reply-To: <000301c3c71c$7f4d2600$0300a8c0@DOVY2> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FW: Is mono 0.29 on FreeBSD 5.1 / 4.9 working for you? X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 19:35:01 -0000 X-Original-Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 09:27:20 -0800 X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 19:35:01 -0000 I'm throwing freebsd-gnome and Joe on because this is of wide interest: My primary interest in lang/mono is getting the latest version of comms/gfax to work (I'm the maintainer). gfax doesn't use sockets (and it won't compile with the current versions of lang/mono and x11-toolkits/gtk-sharp), so I'm waiting for the gfax Beta to catch up. I think part of the problem is that mono is using a "lite" version of the mcs compiler (without the C# runtime included in mcs). I think the "lite" version makes certain assumptions about the platform it's on that are prejudicial to FreeBSD. :) However, porting mcs is proving a little difficult because: 1) the full mcs compiler is not self-hosting (you need a special boot-up mcs to build) 2) the configuration scripts seem to be a tad linux-centric. I believe if we can get a working port for lang/mcs, that we'll be able to fix problems like sockets at the C# runtime level. I believe trying to fix these at the mono runtime level will be frustrating. But, your mileage may vary . . . Yes, I would like playing with anything that builds using mono: it will make the learning curve less steep when the general release version of gfax hits. jmc Mary A. Cooper wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen Gutknecht (IPCoast) [mailto:Stephen@IPCoast.com] > Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 7:44 AM > To: johnmary@adelphia.net > Subject: Is mono 0.29 on FreeBSD 5.1 / 4.9 working for you? > > > Hi John, > > I saw you had some recently activity with Mono on FreeBSD. > > I wanted to see if you had any luck getting network socket applications to > work? We tried jabber-net and it will not work on FreeBSD but works fine > with Mono on Linux and Win32. > > We believe that the FreeBSD socket interfaces are not correctly mating with > Mono. > > We can give you instructions on how to compile / try jabber-net on Mono if > you would like to help troubleshoot. > > Thank you. > > Stephen Gutknecht >