On 09/25/02 Ferguson, Neale wrote: > I'm just starting out porting mono to S/390. So far: > - I downloaded mcs & mono source > - I've created the necessary trampoline stuff in mono/arch/s390 and am ready > to start the build process > - make of mono completes cleanly (mint is one of the things that were built) > - contents of runtime still contains win386 stuff
If you started from the mono 0.15 release you'll have mcs.exe and a bunch of .dll in the runtime directory. While they use the same PE/COFF file format of native win386 executables, they are actually cross-platform .net assemblies, so you can use them fine on S/390. > - mcs will not build until a mcs exists to build it with You'll need mcs.exe, corlib.dll and System.dll from the runtime directory in the mono-0.15 tarball. Note: if you used the cvs version you'll need newer versions of both mcs and corlib. You may compile them yourself if you have access to a linux/x86 box or a windows box. You may also use the nightly snapshots at http://go-mono.com/snapshots/. > So where do I go from here? How do I build an mcs that I can use to > "bootstrap" everything else? How do I use mint? > > I've done searches on the lists but can't seem to get a concise guide to the > porting process. We have this page: http://www.go-mono.com/porting.html. I'll need to expand it to cover testing. Anyway, once you have installed a matching mcs.exe and corlib.dll/System.dll, you can start running some simple tests. You can get a tarball of precompiled tests here: http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-tests.tar.gz. You may simply run mint test.exe for each test and check it returns a 0 exit code. You may unpack them into the mono/mono/tests directory and run make test in there. Once you get 100+ tests passing you may try to compile something with mcs, just run it as follows: mint mcs.exe test.cs If you can recompile most of the samples and run them successfully, you'll want to bootstrap mcs: recompile it on your platform and use the generated mcs to compile itself again. At that point you'll only need to recompile corlib.dll to make your platform fully self-bootstrapping. Running make -f makefile.gnu in the mcs toplevel dir should automate the process for you. Let us know how far you get and feel free to ask more questions on the process. lupus -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian/rules [EMAIL PROTECTED] Monkeys do it better _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
