Hi Thomas,

Found the question about Symbian in the below posting - Would just like to add a vote. Mobility is key - am I wrong when I say most new applications has a mobility perspective?  We should have at least an official opinion on this?
Thomas

Hearing and finding nothing new on the topic, apart from another commercial CLI implementation, I have begun to write a small CLI interpreter for Symbian OS - I recently spent about a week getting from an mcs-compiled assembly to it writing its Hello World string to the console - last part is still a hack with all calls treated as calls to void Console.WriteLine(System.String), a not-type-safe stack and no compiling mscorlib yet and as a console app with static variables it only runs in the simulator. Anyway, I could share the code if there is interest.

I figured Mono was way too big for my phone and Symbian OS only includes a POSIX compatibility library and otherwise uses C++ libraries along with its own conventions, so porting Mono directly seemed problematic at least.

Helpful for any such effort would be if Mono's mcs were less tied to Microsofts .NET - for example it emits a non-standard version string and requires me to complete a number of classes before compiling mscorlib even if I don't use them yet...

Andreas



> I would like to know if somebody is working in porting mono to  
> symbian OS.   Is there any work in progress around it?

I'd be interested to hear that, too!

The only related product I know of is AppForge Crossfire (http://

Mono does appear to support the ARM processor (http://www.mono-
project.com/Mono:ARM); the biggest issue I see is that the memory  
management is considerably different on Symbian OS (cleanup stack),  
and non-constant global variables are problematic.
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