Mono

About the Mono Technology


How Will Mono Technology Change My Life?

 Mono is enabling you to write desktop applications faster and leverage the existing GNOME platform as well as bringing you a new set of development tools. HelloWorld This is a must in every book or tutorial, a "Hello, World!" program, so here it is: 
using System;

class Hello {
    static void Main() {
        Console.WriteLine ("Hello, World!");
    }
}
mcs Hello.cs -o hello.exe
mono hello.exe or mint hello.exe

Architecture

Tools

MonoDoc

Mono Compiler Suite (mcs)

Mono Interpreter (mint)

Mono Content dumper and disassembler (monodis)

Mono debugger

Linux kernel support for binaries

 You can make your mono .exe files executable by following these steps:
  1. Enabling binfmt in your kernel.
  2. Adding the line below to your fstab:
    binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc none
  3. On boot run the cmd below:
    echo ':CLR:M::MZ::/usr/bin/mono:' > /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register
  4. chmod +x foobar.exe
Another way to accomplish the above is to wrap the
mono .exe file it in a shell script, like this: 
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/mono /usr/bin/mcs.exe "$@"

Questions and exercises

Credits

 Author: Martin Willemoes Hansen