On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 7:07 PM, Aaron Bieber <aa...@bolddaemon.com> wrote: > Should have mentioned what the current hurdles are. So far the build > dies because of a few lacking items: > > 1) libunwind (needed for the GC, also I am told this is not a hard > requirement)
libunwind depends on a libc extension called Setcontext, which i quote wikipedia <is somewhat cumbersome to use effectively>, this libc extension is present on NETBSD and FREEBSD but having this entering into openBSD libc may take a long time, even bikeshed are taking time here. > 2) lldb > > I haven't had time to test the builds further to see if there is more > stuff needed. > > ----- Original message ----- > From: Aaron Bieber <aa...@bolddaemon.com> > To: ports@openbsd.org > Subject: CoreCLR and OpenBSD > Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 16:53:00 -0600 > > Hi ports@, > > For anyone interested in .NET running on OpenBSD, there is some action > over on > GitHub (https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/455) around *BSD > support. > > Upstream has been very responsive in regards to merging in support for > BSD > systems and seems to have a strong desire to get it working on as many > OSs > as possible. > > I would like to get coreclr to a state that would allow for a "drop in" > (no patches > needed) port. > > If anyone else is interested in helping out, please ping me or offer > your services > on the issue listed above! > > More info on CoreCLR is available in the main repo: > https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/Documentation/intro-to-clr.md > > Cheers, > Aaron > -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\
