[Mono-osx] Bundled mono console application on OS X throwing gthread errors.

[Duane Wandless]

I had a similar need.  I wanted to fully embed mono within my application so
the end user did not need to install mono.  I posted here:
http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/mono-osx/2008-October/001616.html

which describes the steps I went through.  Two differences in my post, one
is that I was using a DLL.  But now I use an EXE and have essentially the
same workflow.  Two, I embedded my mono app into a Cocoa application.

I do not think you need that nant code referenced in the link in your post.
You can download monobjc and look how their make system handles mkbundle.  I
started there and was able to pull out the necessary steps.  Monobjc has a
very ellegant build system that is a greating starting point.

Best of luck,
Duane

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 6:48 AM, silver83 <silver83 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I have bundled a mono console application using the following steps :
> 1. use mkbundle to create the binary
> 2. use macpack to create a dummy .app
> 3. inject the bundled binary into the .app's resources folder
> 4. rewire the execution script and the files under /Resources to execute
> the
> binary
>
> I run the application and everything is fine, but now I want to rewire
> library dependencies -
> I'm using code from :
>
>
> http://code.google.com/p/cocoa-sharp-dev/wiki/RedistributableAppWithoutInstallingMono
>
> to inject mono libraries into Resources folder, rewire my app to use them,
> and rewire them to use themselves (using otool -L to see their
> dependencies,
> and install_name_tool to rewire them).
>
> During rewiring, I exclude things that I consider "non-mono" -
> CoreFoundation, Carbon, libgcc, and libSystem.  I've tried several mixtures
> of which libraries to exclude, and I either end up with a mono-dependent
> application, or an application that crashed on :
>
> GThread-ERROR **: GThread system may only be initialized once.
>
> Some of the crash report :
> Exception Type:  EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
> Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
> Crashed Thread:  0
>
> Thread 0 Crashed:
> 0   libSystem.B.dylib                   0x95123b9e __kill + 10
> 1   libSystem.B.dylib                   0x9519aec2 raise + 26
> 2   libSystem.B.dylib                   0x951aa47f abort + 73
> 3   libglib-2.0.0.dylib                 0x00c00ecc g_log + 0
> 4   libglib-2.0.0.dylib                 0x00c00ef5 g_log + 41
> 5   libgthread-2.0.0.1800.1.dylib       0x009ec3d7 g_thread_init + 521
> 6   libmono.0.0.0.dylib                 0x002c933d mini_init + 2968
> (mini.c:14091)
> 7   libmono.0.0.0.dylib                 0x0030fa63 mono_main + 454
> (driver.c:1445)
> 8   MyApp                         0x00001f62 main + 215
> 9   MyApp                         0x00001df2 start + 54
>
> Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
>  eax: 0x00000000  ebx: 0x951aa43f  ecx: 0xbffff47c  edx: 0x95123b9e
>  edi: 0x00000002  esi: 0x00d08010  ebp: 0xbffff498  esp: 0xbffff47c
>
>
> Any help (clues, hints, things I can do to debug this, maybe dtrace or
> something) - would be much appreciated...
>
> Thanks in advance
> Yoni.
>
>
>
>
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