1 <a href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> announced the
2 launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an Open Source
3 implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
5 Mono includes: <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
6 C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">runtime</a> for the
7 Common Language Infrastructure and a set of <a
8 href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>
10 You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
11 this project. If you have questions about the project, please
12 read our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
13 Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact us.</a>
15 You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
16 source</a> for our work so far. Or you can grab a <a
17 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our current work.
20 href="resources.html#mailing">subscribe</a> to our mono-list
21 and mono-announce-list
23 You can contact the team at: <a
24 href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">mono-list@ximian.com</a>
28 Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
29 properties. <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11
30 days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships.
32 Ximian users around the world <a
33 href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg">rejoice</a> with
34 recent C# compiler progress.
38 Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
39 (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
43 JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
44 creation, vtable setup, interface table setup).
46 The C# compiler now has almost full property support (only
47 missing bit are pre-post increment/decrement operations),
48 delegates are now created (still missing delegate invocation).
49 try/catch/finally is also supported in the compiler now.
51 System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto
56 Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
57 assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page:
59 href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>.
61 The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This
62 component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
67 Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
68 executable today. This means that a very simple .NET program
69 that was compiled on Windows was able to generate a .NET program
70 while running on Linux using the Mono runtime.
72 The various piece of the puzzle are starting to get together:
73 the compiler can compile simple programs now and we are
74 basically focusing on completeness now.
79 href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
80 Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
84 More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
85 runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
86 (both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
87 type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
88 Ant (Sean and Sergey); Refactored and documented the
89 internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar); StatementExpressions
90 handled correctly (Miguel).
94 A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
95 support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
96 got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
97 the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
98 got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
102 Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
103 Mono</a> to othre architectures.
107 <A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
108 released (runtime engine, class libraries
109 and C# compiler). Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
110 0.7 announcement</a> for details
114 Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
115 repository. Gtk# can run a simple hello world application.
116 The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in
117 C#. You can see the Gtk# Hello World program <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a>
119 Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
123 Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
124 importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
129 The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
130 application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!
132 This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
137 Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
138 independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
142 <b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
145 Hello World consits of 1821 CIL instructions,
146 performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
152 Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
153 are available here: <a
154 href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
158 New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
160 href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a
161 href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
165 A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
166 service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people
167 without access to the <a
168 href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/000/976/msdncompositedoc.xml&frame=true">.NET SDK</a>
172 Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
173 run every night at 10pm Boston time.
177 Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
178 href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a
179 href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
183 The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
184 presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
185 Open Source Software Convention</a>
189 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
190 href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>. You can
191 get the new class libraries from <a
192 href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
196 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
197 href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>. You can
198 get the new class libraries from <a
199 href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
203 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
204 href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>. You can
205 get the new class libraries from <a
206 href="download.html#july-17">here</a>
208 Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
210 Got Sean's new <a href="class-status/index.html">Class
211 Status</a> web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
212 we are now keeping better track of contributors.
216 Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
217 href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>. Get it <a
218 href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
223 href="http://mail.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
225 runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
229 I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
230 Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it. I finally <a
231 href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
239 Brian posted a story on <a
240 href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>