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I'm new to Mono and just started recently. Is mono program are compiled from C# to native code to be able to run on several OS?
and also, I saw a screencast on MonoTouch, which tells me that the monotouch (particularly) compile everything down to Native for C# to be able to run on Iphone.
Im quite confuse.
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The Mono C# compiler is considered feature complete for C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, C# 5.0 and C# 6.0 (ECMA) and it has partial support for C# 7. Historically, various version of same compiler existed.
Mono by default compiles to an intermediate bytecode, which is then run on a virtual machine. This byte-code is portable but is not native machine code.
So, after all these years of its evolution, mono is capable of running many of original . NET Framework application types on operating systems other than Windows. This includes GUI-enabled desktop applications, which can now be made compatible with virtually any modern desktop operating system, including Solaris.
Visual Studio - Windows only Visual Studio is the compiler and IDE created by Microsoft for Windows computers. Visual Studio has several versions. The professional version can compile C# code, as well as a number of other languages.
Mono by default compiles to an intermediate bytecode, which is then run on a virtual machine. This byte-code is portable but is not native machine code.
Mono does have an AOT compiler that will produce native images for when bytecode is not an option.
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Pretty much all .NET platforms, both Microsoft (including desktop, compact framework, and microframework) and third-party (such as mono) compile everything first to a common intermediate language which is portable, then just-in-time compile during execution to native code. Some have no JIT and simply interpret the IL directly.
Native code is obviously non-portable.
Does that help?
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