Hi Miguel,
Honored that the founder of Mono is replying to an email from a Newbie.
Thank you for your advice; I understand better now.
Would like to seek your advice on a matter of a different sort. I am working
in an organisation dealing with multiple IT vendors for IT projects. 1 of
them (a subcontractor) would like to use Mono in production, but the main
vendor's stopping him, siting Legal concerns (we're concerned with violating
Intellectual Property infringement) and Technical concerns (Mono is not
mature).
I honestly have doubts over his technical concerns. I think Mono's working
fine and you have a consulting service from Novell to help out. What I think
would be nice though is for a webpage to list down Mono implementations
running in production in big companies to give technical vendors the
confidence level that the big boys are using it (especially if mono's
ASP.NET is used in production). As for Legal concerns, I need your advice on
this one. Based on your website's FAQ, it's using the Windows APIs that are
probably going to be the issue. The application uses ASP.NET, WinForms and
ADO.NET. While the vendor can probably use GTK# to get around WinForms, is
there any compatible API to replace ASP.NET and ADO.NET? What really is the
risk exposure for a company to use Mono to run these APIs?
Thanks in advance for your advice. Oh, by the way, will we see a source code
-> native image compiler anytime soon? Just fantasizing on the ability to
compile to native code in Linux. That would be a 1 up for Mono against .NET,
wouldn't it? <smile>
Regards,
TuckMeng
From: Miguel de Icaza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: TuckMeng Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Compiling .NET programs to EXE files that
runwithout Mono/NET Framework
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 13:46:28 -0400
Hello,
> a. I am running XP and would like to compile .NET programs to standalone
EXE
> files that run without Mono/NET Framework.
>
> b. I tried using mono --aot filename.exe and noticed that Mono runs 2
> programs - AS (assembler) and gcc (to link). The filename that is
generated
> is filename.exe.dll as I had MingW installed in my PC as well.
AOT compilation is merely a process that avoids JITing, it is not a
process to produce standalone images. Think of it as "caching" the JIT
result for a faster startup experience.
> c. How do I compile it to run properly? I noticed that Mono doesn't
allow me
> to stop the assembly process in XP. I could however see a series of
You might want to look into `mkbundle' instead.
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