[Buildroot] Mono package

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Fri Nov 1 16:39:34 UTC 2013


Dear Mirek Frajkowski,

On Fri, 1 Nov 2013 15:29:31 +0000, Mirek Frajkowski wrote:

> I would like to contribute to buildroot by sending Mono package, which I
> believe many people will find useful.

Nice, thanks!

> Mono has to be cross compiled in two steps:
> 
> 1. Native code - for the virtual execution system, garbage collector and
> other unmanaged bits
> 2. Managed code - this includes C# compiler, assembler, class libraries and
> so on
> 
> Due to this fact it is divided into two sub-folders/sub-packages. The build
> configuration itself is not very complicated, however one thing is worth
> pointing out.
> 
> Mono signs its binary files and thus we have to disable stripping of the
> binaries in the buildroot, which is done through "Config.in" file.
> 
> Everything else is pretty much straight forward and self explanatory.
> 
> Package is also installed in staging directory, just in case someone needs
> to compile other packages which depend on Mono.
> 
> Please find the Mono package attached.

Can you send this as one or several patches, with the patches inline.
See
http://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#_contributing_to_buildroot
for details on how to contribute to Buildroot.

Thanks!

Thomas
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Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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