[Opensim-users] 0.7.6 and MONO 3 (OS X)

[Jeff Kelley]

At 9:01 PM +0000 13/12/13, Justin Clark-Casey wrote:

>OpenSimulator 0.7.6 should have run just fine with Mono 2.4.3.  However, I'm
>  beginning to think that I made a mistake when building it.  It 
>should run under
>Mono 2.4.3 if you took the source code and recompiled it with Mono 2.4.3
>yourself, though I would recommend using later Mono instead if at 
>all possible.

The tarball did not run for me. That's a good thing since i'm now 
ready for 0.8.

In my experience, choosing a MONO version has always be a matter of 
black magic. From the beginning, i have tested a range of versions 
from 2.0.1 (that was opensim 0.6.4) to 3.2.4, with issues like crash 
at login, MySql failures, ScriptEngine crashes, inventory crashes.

2.4.3 has been my choice since April 2010.

I am happy now with 3.2.4.


>I hadn't heard of that finalizer thread issue with Mono 2.10, at 
>least on Linux.  I can
>imagine Mac is significantly different in this area though, so 
>possibly this is a Mac
>  only issue.

All three issues reported (Tom Willans, Em Jannings and myself) were Mac OS.
So yes, this is probably a Darwin/Mach issue. MONO 3.2.4 seems to 
have cured it.


-- Jeff