The absolute bare minimum you need to run a Mono app (hello world) is the runtime (mono) and mscorlib.dll.
Anything past that depends on what your application uses. Jonathan On 12/27/2010 10:53 PM, CodeSlinger wrote: > > I've basically asked this before, so sorry for the repost, but my other > thread got garbled when I had to delete posts in order to keep from getting > continuous warnings about not being approved even though I had registered > after posting them. > > Basically I want just a minimal runtime or even the whole runtime but > nothing else from the build. It was essentially suggested to "just delete > what you don't need" which is sort of like telling someone wanting a wooden > bear to just get a log and cut away the parts that don't look like a bear > (ya I live in the mountains and there are a lot of wooden bear wood carvers > here and I'm not one of them). > > After custom building 2.8.1 on my RHEL45 system, my /usr/mono directory is > 1.2G and I would like to zip a fairly minimal runtime for deployment to > other boxes. According to the doc on assembly search order, all needed dlls > are supposedly in the GAC but that is obviously not the whole story since > mscorlib.dll is in the /usr/mono/lib/mono/4.0 directory. And in the GAC > there are 2.0 and 4.0 components under the component type rather than under > the version so it is harder to distribute just once version such as 4.0. > > So anyway, I might then think all I needed was (prefix=/usr/mono) - > > /usr/mono/bin - for the mono program > /usr/mono/lib/mono/gac - for all the 4.0 system assemblies except my own and > 3rd party > /usr/mono/lib/mono/4.0 - for mscorlib.dll > > and that should be sufficient to run my command line mono app. > > Is it? I did not delete several /usr/mono directories to test that theory. > To run a command line 4.0 app, do I need anything besides the above 3 > directories? > > Also, someone suggested just ship what is referenced by my pgm which makes > sense but for example, mscorlib.dll is not referenced in my VS2010 built > project (in fact I deleted ALL references in the VS2010 references section) > yet mscorlib.dll is in fact needed and is NOT in the GAC but rather found in > /usr/mono/lib/mono/4.0. > > I could experiment, and delete files and directories to see what works and > what does not but I think a true need would be served by having some script > or whatever package up a runtime either based on your exe or on general > requirements, or even just ALL of the runtime would be better than > distributing all of the 1.2G of files including source, compilers etc. > resulting from the build. > > All suggestions appreciated. Maybe this is not a problem for some but I have > to think there are other developers in the same boat as myself not wanting > to cut away all the parts that don't look like a runtime. > > Thanks, Dave _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list
