X-Git-Url: http://wien.tomnetworks.com/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=fcf01c3fca52ae5e0d4adc4cddcc784ee5d959dc;hb=1e12848de3ab117fe42e91af65e968730503b145;hp=b1f596e69bd099d8ff18d95ee816d7249a2c0126;hpb=95dc3521c07b15316c0087fb5f088e65162077e4;p=mono.git diff --git a/README b/README index b1f596e69bd..fcf01c3fca5 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -172,11 +172,20 @@ This is Mono. The following are the configuration options that someone building Mono might want to use: + --with-sgen=yes,no + + Generational GC support: Used to enable or disable the + compilation of a Mono runtime with the SGen garbage collector. + + On platforms that support it, after building Mono, you + will have both a mono binary and a mono-sgen binary. + Mono uses Boehm, while mono-sgen uses the Simple + Generational GC. --with-gc=[boehm, included, sgen, none] - Selects the garbage collector engine to use, the - default is the "included" value. + Selects the default Boehm garbage collector engine to + use, the default is the "included" value. included: This is the default value, and its @@ -192,10 +201,6 @@ This is Mono. Boehm GC, but we do not recommend that people use this, as it disables a few features. - sgen: - The under-development Generational GC for - Mono, do not use this in production. - none: Disables the inclusion of a garbage collector. @@ -259,6 +264,17 @@ This is Mono. This value is set to `no' by default. + --enable-small-config=yes,no + + Enable some tweaks to reduce memory usage and disk footprint at + the expense of some capabilities. Typically this means that the + number of threads that can be created is limited (256), that the + maxmimum heap size is also reduced (256 MB) and other such limitations + that still make mono useful, but more suitable to embedded devices + (like mobile phones). + + This value is set to `no' by default. + --with-ikvm-native=yes,no Controls whether the IKVM JNI interface library is @@ -267,10 +283,10 @@ This is Mono. This defaults to `yes'. - --with-profile2=yes,no + --with-profile4=yes,no - Whether you want to build the 2.x libraries (support - for Generics and the 2.0/3.5 APIS). + Whether you want to build the 4.x profile libraries + and runtime. It defaults to `yes'. @@ -396,6 +412,24 @@ This is Mono. framework, and the various SSA-based optimizations. + --enable-llvm + --enable-loadedllvm + + This enables the use of LLVM as a code generation engine + for Mono. The LLVM code generator and optimizer will be + used instead of Mono's built-in code generator for both + Just in Time and Ahead of Time compilations. + + See the http://www.mono-project.com/Mono_LLVM for the + full details and up-to-date information on this feature. + + You will need to have an LLVM built that Mono can link + against, + + The --enable-loadedllvm variant will make the llvm backend + into a runtime-loadable module instead of linking it directly + into the main mono binary. + --enable-big-arrays This enables the use arrays whose indexes are larger @@ -439,6 +473,15 @@ This is Mono. There are a number of runtime options to control this also, see the man page. + --enable-nacl + + This configures the Mono compiler to generate code + suitable to be used by Google's Native Client: + + http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/ + + Currently this is used with Mono's AOT engine as + Native Client does not support JIT engines yet. 2. Using Mono ============= @@ -523,3 +566,5 @@ This is Mono. directory is automatically configured to share the same prefix than this module gets. + +