[yocto] [meta-mono] Support for Visual Studio debugging on Yocto/OE targets (e.g. RPi)

[Autif Khan]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Autif Khan <autif.mlist at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Alex J Lennon
> <ajlennon at dynamicdevices.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi all, Autif,
>>
>> I've been working to support .NET development on Linux
>> over the past few days.
>>
>> There is a Visual Studio plugin, MonoTools for Visual Studio
>> which provides support for local and remote debugging of
>> .NET applications with Mono.
>>
>> This requires a remote stub to be running on the target
>> platform, monotools-server.
>>
>> I've created a recipe to build monotools-server, which in
>> turn required me to pull in Openembedded Legacy recipes
>> for mono-xsp and gtk-sharp.
>>
>> As it stands I'm now able to build an X enabled image for
>> the Raspberry Pi and remote-debug some simple Windows
>> Forms .NET applications within the Visual Studio IDE.
>>
>> Recipes are hosted here in 'recipes-mono'
>>
>> git at git.assembla.com:ciseco-eve.meta-eve.git

I could not "git clone" the repo.

Presumably, you want to release the recipes with the MIT and/or GPLv2 licenses.

If the license is different for monotools-server or mono-xsp or
gtk-sharp, you will likely have to submit a patch for README file too.

Even otherwise, section 4 in README needs to be updated. If you have
any tasks left - please add them to section 10.

The guidelines for the Yocto project are very similar to other FOSS
projects including the Linux kernel. They are outlined here:

https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Contribution_Guidelines

I used the following as a guide when I have submitted my patches in
the past. This is for the Linux kernel, adapt as appropriate for
meta-mono.

http://linux.koolsolutions.com/2011/02/26/howto-create-and-submit-your-first-linux-kernel-patch/

Please submit separate patches for each of the recipes (presumably
there are no changes to the mono/libGDI+ recipes)

Please add me to the "To:" recipient (I filter a lot of PATCH related
traffic) - this should allow the emails to be caught by the filter
instead of archiving.

In case I do not respond within 72 hours, please email me with a
gentle reminder :-)

I have not had the opportunity to integrate patches just yet, please
bear with me in case I screw up.

Thanks again for contributing!

PS #1: If you do not want to go thru the hassle - please email me the
tar.gz as an attachment and I will check it in directly - a bad side
effect of this would be that you will not get any "git" credit for
this

PS #2: I am still on vacation, but had a few hours - the 72 hour clock
will start only after Monday :-)

And finally, PS #3:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=135229956521385&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=135119051922403&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=134858043613838&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=134791970203982&w=2
... many others ...

Please refrain from top posting :-)

Autif

>> If there is interest in migrating these recipes into meta-mono
>> and  somebody will review them then I'll be pleased to make
>> whatever changes are needed to comply with relevant
>> Yocto policies.
>
> Absolutely!
>
> I am about to embark on a vacation returning to work on Jan 7.
>
> More then - Unfortunately, I will not have time to look at this today
> or until Jan 7.
>
> Working hard - then playing hard :-)
>
> I will dig into then when I return.
>
> (Side note - we gave up on GTK# recipe and decided that Windows forms
> are 'good enough' for us. This makes me glad :-)
>
>>
>> Best Regards, (& Happy Holidays)
>>
>> Alex
>>
>>