Hmmm. When I try this I'm getting a message "AOT is not available on this platform". I was trying mono 2.2 on OSX 10.5.8. with Xcode installed. What are the actual requirements?
-L Glenn R. Martin wrote: > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-list maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Can%27t-get-Ahead-Of-Time-compilation-working-tp25649921p25706294.html Sent from the Mono - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
