* [mtouch][mmp] Report invalid debug symbols files. Fixes#3200
Try to read the assembly with symbols and, if that fails, warn and
fallback to loading them without symbols.
This fixes cases were it's not easy to update or delete (e.g. nuget)
bad symbols files - so this cannot be an error without causing a lot
of pain.
However it needs to be reported, otherwise it wont be fixed (by the
publisher) and it can limit the debugability of the application and
the usefulness of the stacktraces.
Finally merge most of the resolver's code between mtouch and mmp so
we don't have to fix such issue twice anymore.
note: this needs to be slightly updated once we get a version of cecil
that can give us a more precise error message.
Also bring Rolf's tests from
https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios/pull/3079
reference:
https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios/issues/3200
- https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=60277
- Teach mmp and mtouch resolver to always ask for symbol reading from Cecil
- In most cases we explicitly load symbols (LoadReferencesStep) but when we don't rewritten assemblies don't match their pdb and we break debugging.
HFS normalizes filenames to Form D when files are stored. This means that an
assembly whose assembly name is stored in Form C might be stored in a file
whose filename is Form D (which you'll get if you use the Form C filename).
However, this is a problem when we've already loaded an assembly and if we
doesn't take normalization into account: we check the cache based on the
filename, but store in the cache based on the assembly name. If those two uses
different normalization schemes, bad things (bug #57266) happen.
So in these scenarios normalize strings before comparing them.
https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=57266
Implement support for sharing both code and resources between app extensions
and their container app:
* AOT-compiled code. Each shared assembly is only AOT-compiled once, and if
the assembly is built to a framework or dynamic library, it will also only
be included once in the final app (as a framework or dynamic library in the
container app, referenced directly by the app extension). If the assemblies
are built to static objects there won't be any size improvements in the app,
but the build will be much faster, because the assemblies will only be AOT-
compiled once.
* Any resources related to managed assemblies (debug files, config files,
satellite assemblies) will be put in the container app only.
Since these improvements are significant, code sharing will be enabled by
default.
Test results
============
For an extreme test project with 7 extensions (embedded-frameworks)[1]:
with code sharing cycle 9 difference
build time 1m 47s 3m 33s -1m 46s = ~50% faster
app size 26 MB 131 MB -105 MB = ~80% smaller
For a more normal test project (MyTabbedApplication)[2] - this is a simple application with 1 extension:
with code sharing cycle 9 difference
build time 0m 44s 0m 48s -4s = ~ 8% faster
app size 23 MB 37 MB -15 MB = ~40% smaller
Another tvOS app with one extension also show similar gains (MyTVApp)[3]:
with code sharing cycle 9 difference
build time 0m 22s 0m 48s -26s = ~54% faster
app size 22 MB 62 MB -40 MB = ~65% smaller
[1]: https://github.com/rolfbjarne/embedded-frameworks
[2]: https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios/tree/cycle9/msbuild/tests/MyTabbedApplication
[3]: https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios/tree/cycle9/msbuild/tests/MyTVApp
The SDK does not ship any, non-tool, .exe files. In fact .exe _should_
never need to be resolved since the main .exe is always given as an input
to mtouch.
Still it's possible (if quite uncommon) to refer to other .exe assemblies
just like if they were .dll. However those can only come from the
RootDirectory (and not the other places that ship with the SDK).
This "fix" ensure lookups for *.exe is done only inside the RootDirectory
location, speeding up (a bit) resolving assemblies.
In the recent Cecil update Cecil changed from loading assemblies in memory to
keep a FileStream around and read whenever necessary [1].
This is problematic for us, because we need all the AssemblyDefinitions in
memory at once, and if there are many assemblies, then we'll run into problems
due to the number of file descriptors in use.
So revert to the behavior for the old Cecil: loading assemblies in memory,
unless the assemblies are big, since in that case we might run out of memory
otherwise.
http://cecil.pe/post/149243207656/mono-cecil-010-beta-1
* Bump [watch-]mono to master to get fix for #43658.
https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=43658
* [mtouch/mmp] Fix build after breaking cecil update in mono.
Also use mono's cecil instead of our own cecil submodule for mtouch.
* Bump [watch-]mono to get compilation fixes after cecil bump in mono.
* Remove cecil submodule, we only use the one in mono now.
Sebastien Pouliot
Chris Hamons
Ludovic Henry
Rolf Bjarne Kvinge