On 01 Oct 2009, at 07:37 , Alex Shulgin wrote:
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.
Of note, Xcode is not installed by default, however it is available in
full on your OS install/restore disc.
Glenn R. Martin
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