I guess to put it another way, the question might be this: I have a Mono application. I need to distribute that application onto an embedded Linux platform that doesn't have Mono in the OS. Assuming I don't have the luxury of install tool in the OS, what are the steps required to deploy Mono and my application such that the application will be able to run?
-Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: mono-devel-list-boun...@lists.ximian.com [mailto:mono-devel-list- > boun...@lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Chris Tacke > Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 9:40 AM > To: mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com > Subject: [Mono-dev] "Installing" mono via copy > > I have an embedded Linux platform on which I need to install Mono. The > platform does not have any installer tools like apt or whatever. I have to > custom build Mono for the platform for a variety of reasons. > > I am successfully building Mono from source under an Ubuntu machine. That > works just fine. > > The problem I'm now facing is how to "distribute" the resulting build. Due to > size contraints, I've compiled only the 4.5 stuff, plus I've pulled out a > variety > of things like System.Drawing, all of the WinForms stuff, etc. I've also > stripped the binaries. > > What I did was: > > - set a custom prefix (and other stuff) during configure > - make & make install. > - Go into the install folder and trim out stuff I don't need and strip > binaries > > So now I have a set of folders that contain Mono. My hope was that I could > tar these up, copy that to the destination, untar it in the /usr directory so > that > the mono bin files end up in /usr/bin, the mono lib files end up in /usr/lib > etc. > > Doing this I success if I do a mono -V. I get version info. However, if I > try to > actually run a mono app, it complains about not finding mscorlib.dll. It's > looking in the path where I set the prefix back on the build machine. > > How should I be going about doing an installation like this? What am I > missing > in my process? > > -Chris > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-devel-list mailing list > Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list
