LKeene wrote: > Sorry for being a bother folks, but I'm finding all of this a little > confusing. I'm a "Windows only" guy and I still don't understand what the > steps are to perform AOT using Mono on Mac. My app is pure WinForms and I'm > running a VS2008-generated binary on the Mono platform when running my app > on Linux or OSX. I know next to nothing about OSX / Linux and have been > relying on others to install Mono on their machines and run my app whenever > I need to test a new build. The Linux performance is good enough with JIT, > but the OSX performance is a little slow so I was hoping that AOT would help > here. My app is also doing a ton of startup stuff, so AOT would hopefully > help there too. > > My understanding is that if I want to make use of the AOT feature, I first > precompile the app using "mono --aot -O=all MyApp.exe". Then I invoke the > precompiled app via "mono MyApp.exe.so SomeCommandLineArgumentMyAppNeeds". > Is all this correct?
You get it right, almost. 1. You have to run mono --aot MyApp.exe on OSX once after every update of the .exe file. This will give you MyApp.exe.so file which is a native OSX binary. 2. After that run your application as usual: mono MyApp.exe (no .so suffix). If everything worked right, mono will notice that .so file and use it instead of JIT-ing the .exe assembly. > I'm doing all of my development on a Windows 7 box, but I suppose that in > order to perform a full AOT for OSX I need to perform the above steps on OSX > which, according to Apple, has Xcode installed by default? Is there anything > else that needs to be installed on the OSX box other than Mono itself in > order to get this working? I'm really only interested in AOT on OSX, not > Linux. I believe you need Xcode to do this. Other option might be using macports to pull only binutils package, but now that you mention no experience on Linux/OSX your best bet is using Xcode. -- Regards, Alex _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
