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authorMiguel de Icaza <miguel@gnome.org>2004-01-31 06:34:57 +0300
committerMiguel de Icaza <miguel@gnome.org>2004-01-31 06:34:57 +0300
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- HOWTO bundle assemblies inside the mono runtime.
-
-Bundling assemblies inside the mono runtime may be useful for a number
-of reasons:
- * creating a standalone complete runtime that can be more easily
- distributed
- * having an application run against a known set of assemblies
- that has been tested
-
-Of course, there are drawbacks, too: if there has been fixes to the assemblies,
-replacing them means recompiling the runtime as well and if there are other mono apps,
-unless they use the same mono binary, there will be less opportunities for
-the operating system to optimize memory usage. So use this feature only
-when really needed.
-
-To bundle a set of assemblies, you need to create a file that lists the assembly
-names and the relative files. Empty lines and lines starting with # are ignored:
-
-== cut cut ==
-# Sample bundle template
-mscorlib: /path/to/mscorlib/assembly.dll
-myapp: /path/to/myapp.exe
-== cut cut ==
-
-Next you need to build the mono runtime using a special configure option:
-
- ./configure --with-bundle=/path/to/bundle/template
-
-The path to the template should be an absolute path.
-
-The script metadata/make-bundle.pl will take the specifie assemblies and embed
-them inside the runtime where the loading routines can find them before
-searching for them on disk.
-
-There are still two issues to solve:
- * config files: sometimes they are needed but they are not yet bundled
- inside the library ()
- * building with the included libgc makes it not possible to build a mono
- binary statically linked to libmono: this needs to be fixed to make bundles
- really useful
+ HOWTO bundle assemblies inside the mono runtime.
+ Paolo Molaro (lupus@ximian.com)
+
+* Intent
+
+ Bundling assemblies inside the mono runtime may be useful for a number
+ of reasons:
+
+ * creating a standalone complete runtime that can be more easily
+ distributed
+
+ * having an application run against a known set of assemblies
+ that has been tested
+
+ Of course, there are drawbacks, too: if there has been fixes
+ to the assemblies, replacing them means recompiling the
+ runtime as well and if there are other mono apps, unless they
+ use the same mono binary, there will be less opportunities for
+ the operating system to optimize memory usage. So use this
+ feature only when really needed.
+
+* Creating the Bundle
+
+ To bundle a set of assemblies, you need to create a file that
+ lists the assembly names and the relative files. Empty lines
+ and lines starting with # are ignored:
+
+ == cut cut ==
+ # Sample bundle template
+ mscorlib: /path/to/mscorlib/assembly.dll
+ myapp: /path/to/myapp.exe
+ == cut cut ==
+
+ Next you need to build the mono runtime using a special configure option:
+
+ ./configure --with-bundle=/path/to/bundle/template
+
+ The path to the template should be an absolute path.
+
+ The script metadata/make-bundle.pl will take the specifie
+ assemblies and embed them inside the runtime where the loading
+ routines can find them before searching for them on disk.
+
+* Open Issues
+
+ There are still two issues to solve:
+
+ * config files: sometimes they are needed but they are
+ not yet bundled inside the library ()
+
+ * building with the included libgc makes it not
+ possible to build a mono binary statically linked to
+ libmono: this needs to be fixed to make bundles
+ really useful.
+