i have a nokia 9200i and would love to run mono apps on it, i'd be there as a tester for sure!!
-tl On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 15:39 +0100, Andreas Färber wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/mono-list/2006-August/032404.html > > > > > 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:// > > www.appforge.com/products/crossfire/index.html), which is > > commercial. > > > > 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. > _______________________________________________ > Mono-list maillist - Mono-list@lists.ximian.com > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - Mono-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list