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>
29 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
30 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000015.html">update</a>
37 Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
38 href="http://mail.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on
39 Linux</a>. It compiles a sample program and then the sample
42 Mutator unary operators (++ and --) in the compiler are fully
43 functional, they used to only work on variables, and now they
46 To sum things up: The Mono C# compiler is written in C# and
47 uses the .NET classes to get its work done. To make this work
48 on Linux work has to happen in various fronts:
50 * The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile
51 many programs now (our test suite at this point is
54 * The class libraries need to be mature enough to support
55 the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is
56 what Paolo has been working on lately).
58 The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the
59 .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b>
61 * The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual
62 compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.
65 At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will
66 replace our interpreter in production.
72 Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine. Sean has
73 got assembly loading in the runtime (required for NUnit).
75 More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi.
77 Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries.
83 Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
85 Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
91 Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
98 Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
99 href="http://mail.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
100 update</a> on his work on Gtk#.
102 Ravi commited the initial support for Attributes in the
105 Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.
107 Paolo checked in his new System.Reflection and
108 System.Reflection.Emit implementations. He has been working
109 steadily on this huge task for a few weeks now. This is the
110 foundation for the Mono C# compiler, and hence a very
111 important piece of the puzzle.
117 Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
119 Mega patch from Dietmar: he commited the flow analysis code
122 A lot of work has been going into the WebControls by Gaurav (4
123 new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
129 Ravi commited the caller-side method selection of methods with
130 variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing
131 the array handling support.
137 Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were commited this
140 Some large recent developments:
142 The Decimal implementation from Martin Weindel has been
143 partially integrated (we need to put the internalcalls in
144 place now and compile and link the decimal code).
146 Derek Holden commited recently the IntegerFormatter code into
147 the CVS, so we got a pretty comprehensive integer formatting
148 engine that we can finally use all over the place.
150 Compiler got support for lock as well as assorted bug fixes.
151 Ravi is still working on array support (and then we can
152 optimize foreach for the array case).
154 Dietmar is busy working on flow analysis on the JITer, the
155 previous mechanism of generating the forest was wrong. Paolo
156 has been a busy bee reworking the System.Reflection.Emit
157 support code, and we should have some pretty nice stuff next
158 week. Dick on the other hand is still working on the
159 WaitOne/WaitAll emulation code. WaitAll is like select on
160 steroids: it can wait for different kinds of objects: files,
161 mutexes, events and a couple of others.
163 Mike Kestner is busy working on Gtk# which is now using the
164 .defs files to quickly wrap the API.
170 Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
171 properties. <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11
172 days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships.
174 Ximian users around the world <!--a
175 href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with
176 recent C# compiler progress.
182 Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
183 (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
189 JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
190 creation, vtable setup, interface table setup).
192 The C# compiler now has almost full property support (only
193 missing bit are pre-post increment/decrement operations),
194 delegates are now created (still missing delegate invocation).
195 try/catch/finally is also supported in the compiler now.
197 System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto
204 Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
205 assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page:
207 href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>.
209 The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This
210 component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
217 Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
218 executable today. This means that a very simple .NET program
219 that was compiled on Windows was able to generate a .NET program
220 while running on Linux using the Mono runtime.
222 The various piece of the puzzle are starting to get together:
223 the compiler can compile simple programs now and we are
224 basically focusing on completeness now.
231 href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
232 Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
238 More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
239 runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
240 (both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
241 type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
242 Ant (Sean and Sergey); Refactored and documented the
243 internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar); StatementExpressions
244 handled correctly (Miguel).
250 A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
251 support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
252 got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
253 the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
254 got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
260 Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
261 Mono</a> to othre architectures.
267 <A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
268 released (runtime engine, class libraries
269 and C# compiler). Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
270 0.7 announcement</a> for details
276 Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
277 repository. Gtk# can run a simple hello world application.
278 The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in
279 C#. You can see the Gtk# Hello World program <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a>
281 Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
287 Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
288 importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
295 The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
296 application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!
298 This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
305 Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
306 independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
312 <b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
315 Hello World consits of 1821 CIL instructions,
316 performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
324 Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
325 are available here: <a
326 href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
332 New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
334 href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a
335 href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
341 A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
342 service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people
343 without access to the <a
344 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>
350 Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
351 run every night at 10pm Boston time.
357 Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
358 href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a
359 href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
365 The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
366 presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
367 Open Source Software Convention</a>
373 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
374 href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>. You can
375 get the new class libraries from <a
376 href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
382 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
383 href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>. You can
384 get the new class libraries from <a
385 href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
391 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
392 href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>. You can
393 get the new class libraries from <a
394 href="download.html#july-17">here</a>
396 Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
398 Got Sean's new <a href="class-status/index.html">Class
399 Status</a> web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
400 we are now keeping better track of contributors.
406 Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
407 href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>. Get it <a
408 href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
415 href="http://mail.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
417 runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
423 I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
424 Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it. I finally <a
425 href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
437 Brian posted a story on <a
438 href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>