To Alan's point, we did see crashes when we (unintentionally) deployed Mono.Posix.dll along with our app. Our solution was, like he said, to Not Do That, and use our Mono.Posix as a compile-time library only.
I do think it's much easier to do it this way than to have different compile targets, which (if I'm understanding correctly) is what the other suggestions all require. chris -----Original Message----- From: mono-devel-list-boun...@lists.ximian.com [mailto:mono-devel-list-boun...@lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Pryor Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 7:04 AM To: Alan McGovern <alan.mcgov...@gmail.com> Cc: mono-devel-list <mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com> Subject: Re: [Mono-dev] Cross Platform on Linux/Windows with Mono.Posix reference on Linux On Mar 30, 2016, at 8:33 AM, Alan <alan.mcgov...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you package Mono.Posix.dll your app *will crash* on different systems. Not necessarily. > This binary is platform specific and is not safe to copy between OS’s. Mono.Posix.dll *itself* contains no platform-specific code and is perfectly safe to copy between operating systems. Mono.Posix.dll contains P/Invokes into “MonoPosixHelper” (libMonoPosixHelper.dylib on OS X, MonoPosixHelper.dll on Windows, etc.), and MonoPosixHelper contains operating system-specific code. It *cannot* be copied between operating systems; it’s a native library. > It's fine to have a copy of Mono.Posix.dll used purely for compilation > purposes. But at runtime you have to use the system provided one, which > typically means the one provided by the system's mono installation. It’s entirely fine to include Mono.Posix.dll with your app, SO LONG AS you *also* copy and distribute MonoPosixHelper with your app. Additionally, Mono.Posix.dll also P/Invokes other native libraries such as INTL.DLL (Mono.Unix.Catalog) and MSVCRT.DLL (Mono.Unix.Native.Stdlib), which should be usable on Windows (so long as you also distribute INTL.DLL, etc.). - Jon _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list
