Thread: Attempting to build from source (SVN + Gentoo ebuild)

In an attempt to check out OpenMobile on Gentoo I find that the pre-build binary install seems to result in a brain-dead installation: the "Open Mobile.exe" program halts before producing any results and even the Debug plugin doesn't seem to get loaded as no debug file is created.

Being a Gentoo user, I have adversity against prebuild binaries so I decided to attempt to build OM from scratch. I consider myself a fairly proficient linux user with lots of experience with GCC and scripting so I decided to attempt to build this Mono project by hand (I don't have the development GUI installed, only Mono itself with the compiler).

After figuring out that I was missing a lot of dependencies (something quite obvious from the compiler complaints) I run into a new roadblock. Or rather - 2 roadblocks.

The first is that "EnvironmentSetup.exe" returns with exit code 127 according to the project build. Since its completely silent, I have no clue what its trying to do or why its failing. Commenting out this part in the project file allowed me to build OM without errors (but still wondering if I'm missing anything). As I'm trying to convert the build process into an ebuild to allow easy installation/deinstallation on Gentoo - including dependencies - I'd rather fix the problem than patch around it.

Problem 2: When I attempt to start the resulting "Open Mobile.exe" (which seems to have build in Debug mode) I now get a X warning and then the program halts again. 'strace' on the program does not seem to yield any useful information so how does one debug this problem, use the mono debugger?

Finally a more generic question: since the default result is a Debug build in the SVN structure and there does not seem to be a "Install" target - what is the best way to extract the executables and resource folders from the SVN structure to install into a directory on the system?

Edit 1: I found the tracing options and I see 2 potential problems:

[0x7fec6a215740:] EXCEPTION handling: System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: ApplicationName='lsb_release', CommandLine='-d', CurrentDirectory=''

It seems that OM stops at this error (and using tracing I can see its actually doing a LOT so at least I know mono is working properly):

[0x7fdba1e66700: 9.16510 6] ENTER: OpenMobile.Platform.X11.X11GLNative:get_Visible ()(this:0x7fdba9497e00[OpenMobile.Platform.X11.X11GLNative Open Mobile.exe], )
[0x7fdba1e66700: 9.16511 6] LEAVE: OpenMobile.Platform.X11.X11GLNative:get_Visible ()FALSE
[0x7fdba1e66700: 9.16512 5] LEAVE: OpenMobile.NativeWindow:get_Visible ()FALSE
ENTER: (wrapper unknown) OpenMobile.Platform.X11.XIAnyClassInfo:PtrToStruct ure (intptr,object)(0x7fdb9c2a6408, [OpenMobile.Platform.X11.XIAnyClassInfo:0x7fdba94c0 648], )
[0x7fdbadda4740: 9.16650 12] LEAVE: (wrapper unknown) OpenMobile.Platform.X11.XIAnyClassInfo:PtrToStruct ure (intptr,object)
[0x7fdbadda4740: 9.16656 10] LEAVE: (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal:PtrToStruct ure (intptr,System.Type)[OpenMobile.Platform.X11.XIAnyClassInfo:0x7fdba94c0 648]
[0x7fdbadda4740: 9.16660 10] ENTER: (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal:PtrToStruct ure (intptr,System.Type)(0x7fdb9c2a64f4, [TYPE:OpenMobile.Platform.X11.XIAnyClassInfo], )
[0x7fdbadda4740: 9.16666 12] ENTER: (wrapper unknown) OpenMobile.Platform.X11.XIAnyClassInfo:PtrToStruct ure (intptr,object)(0x7fdb9c2a64f4, [OpenMobile.Platform.X11.XIAnyClassInfo:0x7fdba94c0 630], )
[0x7fdbadda4740: 9.16670 12] LEAVE: (wrapper unknown) OpenMobile.Platform.X11.XIAnyClassInfo:PtrToStruct ure (intptr,object)
[0x7fdbadda4740: 9.16675 10] LEAVE: (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal:PtrToStruct ure (intptr,System.Type)[OpenMobile.Platform.X11.XIAnyClassInfo:0x7fdba94c0 630]
[0x7fdbadda4740: 9.16682 10] ENTER: (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal:PtrToStruct ure (intptr,System.Type)(0x7fdb9c2a64f4, [TYPE:OpenMobile.Platform.X11.XIValuatorInfo], )
[0x7fdbadda4740: 9.16703 12] ENTER: (wrapper unknown) OpenMobile.Platform.X11.XIValuatorInfo:PtrToStruct ure (intptr,object)(0x7fdb9c2a64f4, [OpenMobile.Platform.X11.XIValuatorInfo:0x7fdba9495 680], )
[0x7fdbadda4740: 9.16713 12] LEAVE: (wrapper unknown) OpenMobile.Platform.X11.XIValuatorInfo:PtrToStruct ure (intptr,object)
[0x7fdbadda4740: 9.16718 10] LEAVE: (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal:PtrToStruct ure (intptr,System.Type)[OpenMobile.Platform.X11.XIValuatorInfo:0x7fdba9495 680]
[0x7fdbadda4740: 9.16737 10] ENTER: (wrapper managed-to-native) OpenMobile.Platform.X11.Functions:XGetAtomName (intptr,uint)(0x7fdb9c247f00, -1677721480, )
X Error of failed request: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)
Major opcode of failed request: 17 (X_GetAtomName)
Atom id in failed request: 0x9c000078
Serial number of failed request: 16
Current serial number in output stream: 16