Mono Project vs Visual Studio and CA Gen
In order to lower the Total Cost of Entry to the CA Gen world (let’s face it – it IS quite pricey !!), I’d wondered if the Open Source Visual Studio “clone” Mono could be used to compile up Windows and Linux Gen-generated C code.
As far as I can see (support aside) it should be possible to compile and run GUI clients using the compilers – I’ve yet to try this but hope to do so in the near future.
However, I have had success compiling C proxies with GNU C – they run without issue – so I am hopeful about using Mono – has anyone tried this or be willing to have a stab ?
Ahh – I missed the fact that it aims to produce binary compatible code.
As Darius says it would not be a supported option – I’m just interested to see if it would be possible. As far as I can see, development with the Mono framework gives binary compatibility with code produced by Visual C – its an academic exercise as far as I’m concerned! I have seen and been the C proxy compiled with GNU C under Windows and executed in a successful manner – so the logical extension for compiler choice and technology for me would be with the Mono framework
I don’t think this would work. The Gen runtimes are developed with Visual C and the generated code will need to be runtime compatible with the runtimes. Also it would not be a supported option.