A big thanks to Laurent and Sledge for all the hard work in debugging this
pesky problem! It is really greatly appreciated...

 

Laurent, I have installed your patched Mono on my Snow Leopard system, and
can confirm that my software appears to work smoothly now! Great job!

I know the patch will not be the final fix, but in any case it shows that
you guys have a good grip on what exactly goes wrong.

 

If you want any more or different tests, let me know.

 

Thanks once more!

Franky

 

 

 

From: laurent.etiem...@gmail.com [mailto:laurent.etiem...@gmail.com] On
Behalf Of Laurent Etiemble
Sent: maandag 19 oktober 2009 11:41
To: users@lists.monobjc.net
Subject: Re: [us...@lists.monobjc.net] Re: [us...@lists.monobjc.net] Feeback
Wanted on Snow Leopard

 

Hello,

 

I have built a variant of the Mono framework on Snow Leopard with an
improved patch for bug #537764
<https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537764> . For those who are
interested, you can:

- install an official version of Mono to get all the soft links in place

- download the archive:
http://build.monobjc.net/binaries/Mono.framework.2.6_M.tar.bz2

- unarchive it under /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions

- relink the current version to the new one (sudo rm Current && sudo ln -s
2.6_M Current)

 

Beware that:

- The archive only contains a small subset of the Mono framework (Mono +
NAnt)

- You should be able to package and run Monobjc's applications

- It does not contains all the third-party assemblies or the GTK parts.

- It will probably only work on Snow Leopard

 

My goal is to know if the patch is robust enough to be pushed to Mono team.

 

Regards, Laurent Etiemble.

 

2009/10/12 Franky De Meyer <f...@eazign.be>

Thanks for the extra tips Kenny, but I must admit I've now given up on
trying to build Mono on Snow Leopard myself.
This seems like a rather specialized matter, and requires more insight in
the Mono build process (+ related Linux tools) than I can handle.

I noticed the new installer for OSX today (on mono-project), version
2.4.2.3_6, so I was anxious to try it out on the SimpleCocoaApp on Snow
Leopard, but unfortunately it still crashes, so it looks like the proposed
patch is not in it yet...

This is all quite depressing. Just as I was finally getting ready to release
my app for OSX, it turns out that many of the potential users have already
upgraded to Snow Leopard, so it's back to zero now. Sometimes I wonder
whether I shouldn't have just taken the plunge and should have ported the
entire app to XCode. Of course that would mean that none of my code would
have been shared between Windows and Mac, while with the mono/monobjc
solution I can have 70% common code.

In any case, thanks again to Laurent for the great work and trying to help
us out with this Mono problem. And thanks to you Kenny, for your efforts and
guidance.
Let's hope we can soon join the Snow Leopard gang ...

Franky




-----Original Message-----
From: Kenny Clement [mailto:psyki...@gmail.com]

Sent: vrijdag 2 oktober 2009 15:23
To: users@lists.monobjc.net
Subject: Re: [us...@lists.monobjc.net] Re: [us...@lists.monobjc.net] Feeback
Wanted on Snow Leopard

Franky,

For glib, I'm using the following:

CC="cc -L/Users/fdm/Mono/lib" CFLAGS="-I/Users/fdm/Mono/include -m32"
PATH=/Users/fdm/Mono/bin:$PATH ./configure --prefix=/Users/fdm/Mono

sorry, I forgot that CC and extra CFLAGS in my previous mail.
When I got your gettext error, it was because my mono prefix was not in
the path, however, you say it is.

I also did an upgrade from leopard to Snow.

My application is now working without crashes, however, on a certain
window in my app, CPU spikes to 100% whenever something on the form is
changed.
This CPU spike only occurs after a few hours (or lots of activity), it
seems to 'build up' and after a while, the app is no longer usable.

Still investigating, trying to turn off some bindings, ... seeing if
that helps or not.
I didn't get this behaviour on Leopard / old mono, so it must be
something in either Snow Leopard, or the new Mono (after all, it is an
svn build, not an official release).

I also see some issues when building my app with integrated mono, it
fails a lot more than on regular leopard.

I don't think either of those issues is related to the patch from
Laurent/Sledge Ham, but we're still testing...

mvg,

- Kenny


Franky De Meyer wrote:
> Thanks for the extra info for the Snow Leopard build.
>
> It helped me get a little further now: "GNU Gettext" and "pkg-config" now
> both build OK on Snow Leopard.
> The "glib" configure however stops with following error:
>
> (After installing Gettext and pkg-config in /Users/fdm/Mono)
> When I execute:
>
> cd glib-2.22.0
> CFLAGS="-m32"
> CXXFLAGS="-m32"
> CC="cc -L/Users/fdm/Mono/lib"
> ./configure --prefix=/Users/fdm/Mono
>
> I get the following output: (only the last few lines shown)
> ----------------
> ...
> checking for libintl.h... yes
> checking for ngettext in libc... no
> checking for bindtextdomain in -lintl... no
> checking if -liconv is needed to use gettext...
> checking for ngettext in -lintl... no
> configure: error:
> *** You must have either have gettext support in your C library, or use
the
> *** GNU gettext library. (http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html
> ------------------
>
> So, there must still be something I'm doing wrong. The install of
> gettext-0.17 was OK, and was built with the same settings as glib.
> I can just type gettext at the command prompt however, and it is found.I
> have the latest XCode version. I did do an upgrade from Leopard to Snow
> Leopard and not a fresh install. Maybe that has something to do with it.
>
> In any case, thanks for your help.
>
> BTW, does your app work OK on Snow Leopard, with the latest patch from
> Laurent?
>
> Regards,
> Franky
>
>
>
>
>
> From: Kenny Clement [mailto:psyki...@gmail.com]
> Sent: donderdag 1 oktober 2009 9:56
> To: users@lists.monobjc.net
> Subject: Re: [us...@lists.monobjc.net] Re: [us...@lists.monobjc.net]
Feeback
> Wanted on Snow Leopard
>
> Franky,
>
> I've struggled with the same issues.
> In order to build Mono on Snow Leopard, you need the CFLAGS and CXXFlags
set
> to -m32 for Mono and all the components required for it (gettext,
> pkg-config, libiconv, glib):
> example:
>
> CFLAGS="-m32" CXXFLAGS="-m32" ./configure --prefix=/mono
> make
> make install
>
> (note that the prefix should be changed to where-ever you want to install
> it.)
> Add the prefix path to your envvar PATH if it is not yet in there.
> (otherwise it will complain about not finding gettext, ...)
>
> In case you get 'deprecated' errors in ucontext, add the following line at
> the top in /usr/include/ucontext.h:
> #define _XOPEN_SOURCE 500
>
> (I'm sure there is a better way, but this works for me.)
>
> nant is a separate install (build) if you compile Mono:
>
> http://www.mono-project.com/NAnt_Installation
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> - Kenny
>

 

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