Mono for Debian --------------- 1. Documentation can be found in the separated monodoc packages. 2. Supported Processor Architectures for Mono 1.1.x (current) JIT: Linux/x86 Linux/AMD64 Linux/PPC Linux/S390 (not functional) Linux/ARM Solaris/SPARC Interpreter (deprecated/unmaintained): - Supported Processor Architectures for Mono 1.0.x (old) JIT: Linux/x86 Linux/PPC MacOS/PPC Interpreter (deprecated/unmaintained): Linux/x86 Linux/PPC HP-UX/HPPA S390 StrongARM Solaris/SPARC Solaris/SPARC v9 3. Typical problems: 3a. Purge your ~/.wapi directory if you see messages like: ** (/tmp/hello.exe:23770): WARNING **: Shared memory sanity check failed. ** (/tmp/hello.exe:23770): WARNING **: Failed to attach shared memory! Falling back to non-shared handles Reason: 02:00:00 < totte> .wapi is the shared memory file folder used to handle process.start and someother functions for our IO lib 3b. Question: Mono does not work for me (wrong version of mscorlib reported) or monodevelop breaks on start (MonoDevelop.Core.dll has incorrect version...) Answer: Most likely you have compiled some old Mono version before and have a funny mixture of upstream and Debian files in different versions. Make sure that /usr/local does not appear in the output of the following commands and remove the particular files in /usr/local/...: which mono which mint ldd $(which mono) ls /usr/local/lib/Mono*dll ls /usr/local/lib/System*dll ls /usr/local/lib/I18*dll (and maybe most other dll files there) 4. (for developers) The main coordination site of the maintainers is on http://pkg-mono.alioth.debian.org/, more details can be found there. CLI Policy for packaging Mono libraries/applications can be found on http://pkg-mono.alioth.debian.org/cli-policy/ An offline version is in /usr/share/doc/cli-common/ of the the cli-common package. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- PS: Some comparisons (not real benchmarks!), testing different invocation methods: The "native" method via exec, binfmt_misc, binfmpt-support (Perl script), binfmt-detector-cli: time for x in `seq 1000` ; do ./hello.exe > /dev/null; done real 3m2.969s user 2m8.060s sys 0m14.540s The shell wrapper method using mono: time for x in `seq 1000` ; do ./hello.sh > /dev/null; done real 2m43.146s user 1m45.990s sys 0m11.140s Using "cli-wrapper" with a symlink: time for x in `seq 1000` ; do ./hello > /dev/null; done real 2m23.958s user 1m32.720s sys 0m9.640s The "interpreter" method using mono: time for x in `seq 1000` ; do /usr/bin/cli ./hello.exe > /dev/null; done real 2m23.699s user 1m33.140s sys 0m8.920s Eduard Bloch -- Sat, 19 Jun 2004 02:28:40 +0200