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author | Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org> | 2009-03-17 14:32:59 -0400 |
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committer | Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org> | 2009-03-17 14:32:59 -0400 |
commit | 709c4d66e0b107ca606941b988bad717c0b45d9b (patch) | |
tree | 37ee08b1eb308f3b2b6426d5793545c38396b838 /recipes/mono/README | |
parent | fa6cd5a3b993f16c27de4ff82b42684516d433ba (diff) |
rename packages/ to recipes/ per earlier agreement
See links below for more details:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openembedded/21326
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openembedded/21816
Signed-off-by: Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org>
Acked-by: Mike Westerhof <mwester@dls.net>
Acked-by: Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>
Acked-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Marcin Juszkiewicz <hrw@openembedded.org>
Acked-by: Koen Kooi <koen@openembedded.org>
Acked-by: Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/recipes/mono/README b/recipes/mono/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b80b5bbbe6 --- /dev/null +++ b/recipes/mono/README @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +Notes on Mono support in OE. + +=============================== +Mono 2.2 rc1 status +- still needs quite a bit of packaging TLC +- applied patch for "need OABI" issue +- overall seems to be running well + +=============================== +Mono 1.9.1 status + +- mono-native and mono-mcs-intermediate error out during compile, but in a + dev shell they compile fine -- very strange. + +=============================== +Cross Compiling Mono + +Cross compiling mono requires a two stage build because the mono mcs directory +cannot be built while cross compiling (http://www.mono-project.com/Mono:ARM). +The recommended way to cross compile mono is to + + 1. do a complete build on the host system, and install. + 2. cross compile mono which will only build the native target code and + overlay the target binaries on the host install. + +The MCS build (step 1) is implemented by the mono-mcs-intermediate* recipe. +This recipe is very similiar to the native build, except it uses standard +install prefixes and the install directory is tar'd up, and placed in staging +for use by the cross build. + +During the mono cross build, the first step during the install is to untar +the install results of the mcs-intermediate build. The cross build install +then proceeds to overlay the native binaries in the install directory. + +================================ +mono.bbclass + +Has a function mono_do_clilibs and inserts that function into PACKAGEFUNCS. +This function calls mono_find_provides_and_requires which finds out (through +calls to monodis --assembly and monodis --assemblyref) which assemblies are +provided and required by a particular package. mono_do_clilibs then +puts the information about provided assemblies into +${CLILIBSDIR}/${packagename}.list and information about the +required packages into ${PKGDEST}/{packagename}.clilibdeps where it +will later be picked up by read_shlibdeps. |