FWIW I'd be very interested in mono support for solaris sparc and amd64
On 23 May 2013 14:21, Burkhard Linke <bli...@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de>wrote: > Forgot the CC to the list.... > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [Mono-dev] Mono on Solaris Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 > 15:16:46 +0200 From: Burkhard Linke > <bli...@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de><bli...@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de> To: > Matt Clay <matt.c...@earthclassmail.com> <matt.c...@earthclassmail.com> > > Hi, > > On 05/21/2013 07:56 PM, Matt Clay wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Does anyone still maintain support for Mono on Solaris, specifically for > > SPARC? > > > > There are no Solaris packages on the download page for 3.x and the Solaris > > SPARC package for 2.10.5 is missing the .NET 4.0 class libraries. > I've built Mono 2.x releases for Solaris/x86. It's a major maintenance > nightmare, since Solaris has its own ideas about posix threads and > especially thread cancel handlers. If you do heavy threaded load, you > will likely run into deadlock within the garbage collection. At least > stock Boehm GC is affected by this problem. SGen does not work under > Solaris, too, with the binaries aborting and generating core dumps. I > didn't had the time to investigate this further. And since Solaris is a > dying operating system on our site, I'll probably not dig into this further. > > If you want to try it, you'll definitely need a recent checkout of the > Boehm GC. And you should disable the dtrace support code, since it does > not compile. > > Burkhard > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-devel-list mailing list > Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list > >
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