DotGNU PNET

Introduction

This page is a temporary spot for any of my DotGNU Portable .NET-related activities.

DotGNU Portable.NET

Overview

From the website:http://www.southern-storm.com.au/portable_net.html

The goal of this project is to build a suite of free software tools to build and execute .NET applications, including a C# compiler, assembler, disassembler, and runtime engine. While the initial target platform was GNU/Linux, it is also known to run under Windows, Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and MacOS X. The runtime engine has been tested on the x86, PowerPC, ARM, Sparc, PARISC, s309, Alpha, and IA-64 processors.

My Build Scripts

Here are scripts I used to check out from CVS, configure and build. I use them on a RedHat 8.0 install which has all of the prerequisite developer tools. Unlike the official build instructions, this uses a non-default prefix.

Before you run any of these scripts, be sure to edit env.sh and set DOTGNU_ROOT_DIR appropriately. Before you run any of the other scripts, be sure to source env.sh:

. env.sh

Script Name	Description
`co.sh`	Checks out `treecc`, `pnet`, `pnetlib` under `DOTGNU_ROOT_DIR`. This is only necessary once. To subsequently refresh the sources, use `cvs update [-C]` from the appropriate subdirectory (`tree`, `pnet`, `pnetlib`). See the CVS manual for further details.
`all.sh`	Configures and builds all modules.
`cfg.sh`	Configures one module (i.e. cfg.sh treecc). This is invoked by all.sh.
`build.sh`	Builds one module. This is invoked by all.sh and can be subsequently invoked by hand to rebuild and install a module.

Download the scripts: BuildScripts.tar.gz

Here is how I just got and built everything from scratch:

cd /datal/dotgnu-pnet/scripts
. env.sh
co.sh
all.sh
cd ../pnetlib/samples
export PATH=/datal/dotgnu-pnet/build/deploy/bin:$PATH
ilrun FormsHello.exe

Please send feedback; let me know if I could have done things better.

A Cool Game

Check out my Nim page for a link to a game written in C# which runs happily under pnetlib 0.6.0!