I am trying to bundle the application with mono 3.2.3 to a stand-alone executable. To do so, I am following this guideline. After declarating variables:
mono_version="3.2.3"
export MONO=/cygdrive/c/progra~2/Mono-$mono_version
machineconfig=$PROGRAMFILES\\Mono-$mono_version\\etc\\mono\\4.5\\machine.config
export PATH=$PATH:$MONO/bin
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$MONO/lib/pkgconfig
export CC="i686-pc-mingw32-gcc -U _WIN32"
mkbundle --deps command cannot localize referenced assemblies:
Unhandled Exception:
System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'gtk-sharp' or
one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
File name: 'gtk-sharp'
performing exactly the same operation with mono 2.10.9:
mono_version="2.10.9"
export MONO=/cygdrive/c/progra~2/Mono-$mono_version
machineconfig=$PROGRAMFILES\\Mono-$mono_version\\etc\\mono\\4.0\\machine.config
export PATH=$PATH:$MONO/bin
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$MONO/lib/pkgconfig
export CC="i686-pc-mingw32-gcc -U _WIN32"
mkbundle --deps --machine-config "$machineconfig" -c UI.exe
gives positive result:
OS is: Windows
WARNING:
Check that the machine.config file you are bundling
doesn't contain sensitive information specific to this machine.
Sources: 3 Auto-dependencies: True
embedding: C:\users\piotr\desktop\authoringtool\UI\bin\debug\UI.exe
config from: C:\users\piotr\desktop\authoringtool\UI\bin\debug\UI.exe.config
embedding: C:\PROGRA~2\MONO-2~1.9\lib\mono\gac\gtk-sharp\2.12.0.0__35e10195dab3c99f\gtk-sharp.dll
embedding: C:\PROGRA~2\MONO-2~1.9\lib\mono\gac\glib-sharp\2.12.0.0__35e10195dab3c99f\glib-sharp.dll
.
.
.
embedding: C:\PROGRA~2\MONO-2~1.9\lib\mono\4.0\Mono.Posix.dll
Machine config from: C:\Program Files (x86)\Mono-2.10.9\etc\mono\4.0\machine.config
Compiling:
as -o temp.o temp.s
Does anyone know the reason of such behavior? I'm using 64-bit version of windows 7 and the Cygwin I found on the official website. The code was compiled and tested on Xamarin Studio 4.2 and Visual Studio 2010.
Tested with mono 4.0.3
In mono 4.0.3, mkbundle works but it can be tricky to make it work.
First, check your setup:
# M_PREFIX refers to Mono installation # For more information, search for prefix installation in Mono documentation M_PREFIX='/cygdrive/c/Mono' export DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH=${M_PREFIX}/lib:${DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH} export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${M_PREFIX}/lib:${M_PREFIX}/lib/mono/4.5:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} export C_INCLUDE_PATH=${M_PREFIX}/include:${C_INCLUDE_PATH} export ACLOCAL_PATH=${M_PREFIX}/share/aclocal:${ACLOCAL_PATH} export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${M_PREFIX}/lib/pkgconfig:${PKG_CONFIG_PATH} # Here we added the system32 to make cmd available to mkbundle # /usr/bin is the default location for mingw export PATH=${M_PREFIX}/bin:/cygdrive/c/Windows/system32:/usr/bin:${PATH} export CC="i686-pc-mingw32-gcc -U _WIN32"
Then you can run:
mkbundle --deps --keeptemp my.exe my.dll -o bundled.exe
Notes: - Copy mono-2.0.dll
in the application directory as it should be distributed along the bundled exe
cp ${M_PREFIX}/bin/mono-2.0.dll .
-z
is used, zlib1.dll should be copied as well. (note that gcc invocation change also). You may need more dll depending on your usage of framework features (not exhaustive list : libglib*.dll, libgmodule*.dll, libgthread*.dll, iconv.dll, intl.dll)-c
is used to generate only stub.--keeptemp
will keep temp.c and temp.s which could come in handy if mkbundle fail on gcc invocation.i686-pc-mingw32-gcc -U _WIN32 -g -o output.exe -Wall temp.c $(pkg-config --cflags --libs mono-2) temp.o
To make console application work you must remove -mwindows from the gcc command. To do that, you must invoke pkg-config --cflags --libs mono-2
and remove the -mwindows
.
You should obtain something like that afterwards:
i686-pc-mingw32-gcc -g -o output.exe -Wall temp.c -mms-bitfields -IC:/Mono/include/mono-2.0 -mms-bitfields -LC:/Mono/lib -lmono-2.0 -lws2_32 -lpsapi -lole32 -lwinmm -loleaut32 -l advapi32 -lversion temp.s
mkbundle is an open sourced C# console application (on mono github) so it can be easily modified and recompiled depending on your needs. Reading the code could also be helpful to understand how it works underneath.
cmd usage as the different commands used by mkbundle are hard coded so it would benefit from some parametrization enhancement.
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