I've basically asked this before, so sorry for the repost, but my other thread got garbled when I had to delete posts in order to keep from getting continuous warnings about not being approved even though I had registered after posting them.
Basically I want just a minimal runtime or even the whole runtime but nothing else from the build. It was essentially suggested to "just delete what you don't need" which is sort of like telling someone wanting a wooden bear to just get a log and cut away the parts that don't look like a bear (ya I live in the mountains and there are a lot of wooden bear wood carvers here and I'm not one of them). After custom building 2.8.1 on my RHEL45 system, my /usr/mono directory is 1.2G and I would like to zip a fairly minimal runtime for deployment to other boxes. According to the doc on assembly search order, all needed dlls are supposedly in the GAC but that is obviously not the whole story since mscorlib.dll is in the /usr/mono/lib/mono/4.0 directory. And in the GAC there are 2.0 and 4.0 components under the component type rather than under the version so it is harder to distribute just once version such as 4.0. So anyway, I might then think all I needed was (prefix=/usr/mono) - /usr/mono/bin - for the mono program /usr/mono/lib/mono/gac - for all the 4.0 system assemblies except my own and 3rd party /usr/mono/lib/mono/4.0 - for mscorlib.dll and that should be sufficient to run my command line mono app. Is it? I did not delete several /usr/mono directories to test that theory. To run a command line 4.0 app, do I need anything besides the above 3 directories? Also, someone suggested just ship what is referenced by my pgm which makes sense but for example, mscorlib.dll is not referenced in my VS2010 built project (in fact I deleted ALL references in the VS2010 references section) yet mscorlib.dll is in fact needed and is NOT in the GAC but rather found in /usr/mono/lib/mono/4.0. I could experiment, and delete files and directories to see what works and what does not but I think a true need would be served by having some script or whatever package up a runtime either based on your exe or on general requirements, or even just ALL of the runtime would be better than distributing all of the 1.2G of files including source, compilers etc. resulting from the build. All suggestions appreciated. Maybe this is not a problem for some but I have to think there are other developers in the same boat as myself not wanting to cut away all the parts that don't look like a runtime. Thanks, Dave -- View this message in context: http://mono.1490590.n4.nabble.com/What-directories-files-needed-to-distribute-a-mono-runtime-from-a-build-tp3165696p3165696.html Sent from the Mono - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list
