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 AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour). Thanks
29 to <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> and Jesus
30 Climent for helping to set this up.
34 All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
37 Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are
40 More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).
44 JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
45 Dietmar added exceptions support to it.
47 The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the
48 switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs. Many
51 Nick keeps working on improving our class library test suite.
53 Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.
58 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
59 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000015.html">update</a>
66 Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
67 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on
68 Linux</a>. It compiles a sample program and then the sample
71 Mutator unary operators (++ and --) in the compiler are fully
72 functional, they used to only work on variables, and now they
75 To sum things up: The Mono C# compiler is written in C# and
76 uses the .NET classes to get its work done. To make this work
77 on Linux work has to happen in various fronts:
79 * The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile
80 many programs now (our test suite at this point is
83 * The class libraries need to be mature enough to support
84 the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is
85 what Paolo has been working on lately).
87 The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the
88 .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b>
90 * The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual
91 compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.
94 At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will
95 replace our interpreter in production.
101 Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine. Sean has
102 got assembly loading in the runtime (required for NUnit).
104 More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi.
106 Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries.
112 Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
114 Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
120 Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
127 Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
128 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
129 update</a> on his work on Gtk#.
131 Ravi commited the initial support for Attributes in the
134 Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.
136 Paolo checked in his new System.Reflection and
137 System.Reflection.Emit implementations. He has been working
138 steadily on this huge task for a few weeks now. This is the
139 foundation for the Mono C# compiler, and hence a very
140 important piece of the puzzle.
146 Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
148 Mega patch from Dietmar: he commited the flow analysis code
151 A lot of work has been going into the WebControls by Gaurav (4
152 new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
158 Ravi commited the caller-side method selection of methods with
159 variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing
160 the array handling support.
166 Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were commited this
169 Some large recent developments:
171 The Decimal implementation from Martin Weindel has been
172 partially integrated (we need to put the internalcalls in
173 place now and compile and link the decimal code).
175 Derek Holden commited recently the IntegerFormatter code into
176 the CVS, so we got a pretty comprehensive integer formatting
177 engine that we can finally use all over the place.
179 Compiler got support for lock as well as assorted bug fixes.
180 Ravi is still working on array support (and then we can
181 optimize foreach for the array case).
183 Dietmar is busy working on flow analysis on the JITer, the
184 previous mechanism of generating the forest was wrong. Paolo
185 has been a busy bee reworking the System.Reflection.Emit
186 support code, and we should have some pretty nice stuff next
187 week. Dick on the other hand is still working on the
188 WaitOne/WaitAll emulation code. WaitAll is like select on
189 steroids: it can wait for different kinds of objects: files,
190 mutexes, events and a couple of others.
192 Mike Kestner is busy working on Gtk# which is now using the
193 .defs files to quickly wrap the API.
199 Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
200 properties. <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11
201 days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships.
203 Ximian users around the world <!--a
204 href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with
205 recent C# compiler progress.
211 Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
212 (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
218 JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
219 creation, vtable setup, interface table setup).
221 The C# compiler now has almost full property support (only
222 missing bit are pre-post increment/decrement operations),
223 delegates are now created (still missing delegate invocation).
224 try/catch/finally is also supported in the compiler now.
226 System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto
233 Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
234 assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page:
236 href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>.
238 The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This
239 component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
246 Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
247 executable today. This means that a very simple .NET program
248 that was compiled on Windows was able to generate a .NET program
249 while running on Linux using the Mono runtime.
251 The various piece of the puzzle are starting to get together:
252 the compiler can compile simple programs now and we are
253 basically focusing on completeness now.
260 href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
261 Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
267 More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
268 runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
269 (both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
270 type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
271 Ant (Sean and Sergey); Refactored and documented the
272 internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar); StatementExpressions
273 handled correctly (Miguel).
279 A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
280 support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
281 got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
282 the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
283 got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
289 Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
290 Mono</a> to othre architectures.
296 <A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
297 released (runtime engine, class libraries
298 and C# compiler). Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
299 0.7 announcement</a> for details
305 Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
306 repository. Gtk# can run a simple hello world application.
307 The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in
308 C#. You can see the Gtk# Hello World program <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a>
310 Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
316 Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
317 importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
324 The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
325 application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!
327 This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
334 Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
335 independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
341 <b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
344 Hello World consits of 1821 CIL instructions,
345 performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
353 Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
354 are available here: <a
355 href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
361 New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
363 href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a
364 href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
370 A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
371 service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people
372 without access to the <a
373 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>
379 Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
380 run every night at 10pm Boston time.
386 Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
387 href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a
388 href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
394 The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
395 presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
396 Open Source Software Convention</a>
402 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
403 href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>. You can
404 get the new class libraries from <a
405 href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
411 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
412 href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>. You can
413 get the new class libraries from <a
414 href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
420 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
421 href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>. You can
422 get the new class libraries from <a
423 href="download.html#july-17">here</a>
425 Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
427 Got Sean's new <a href="class-status/index.html">Class
428 Status</a> web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
429 we are now keeping better track of contributors.
435 Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
436 href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>. Get it <a
437 href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
444 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
446 runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
452 I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
453 Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it. I finally <a
454 href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
466 Brian posted a story on <a
467 href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>