Adding Jo who maintains the Linux packages. Jo: should we start distributing the .a files given that they're required for mkbundle?
AFAIK we ship the equivalent .lib files on the Windows MSI. - Alex 2016-02-18 8:40 GMT+01:00 Timotheus Pokorra < timotheus.poko...@solidcharity.com>: > Hello Eugene, > > > The static mono library (libmono-2.0.a) doesn’t appear in any package on > the > > official mono CentOS (download.mono-project.com/repo/centos). This > prevents > > us from using mkbundle –static in our CentOS environments. Is this on > > purpose or are we just missing something? Also, what’s the recommended > work > > around other than switching to Debian or Ubuntu? > > see the source of the rpm file: > > https://github.com/mono/linux-packaging-mono/blob/centos/mono-core.spec#L189 > > # remove .a files for libraries that are really only for us > rm -f %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/libMonoPosixHelper.a > rm -f %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/libikvm-native.a > rm -f %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/libmono-llvm.a > rm -f %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/libmono-2.0.a > rm -f %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/libmonoboehm-2.0.a > rm -f %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/libmonosgen-2.0.a > > I just checked, we do the same for the Mono packages for Fedora: > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/mono.git/tree/mono.spec#n316 > > I have not used mkbundle before, and I don't know what "libraries that > are really only for us" means. > > Would it not be better to just require a dependancy on Mono in your > application instead of using mkbundle? > > All the best, > Timotheus > _______________________________________________ > Mono-list maillist - Mono-list@lists.ximian.com > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list >
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