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Mono on i Project February 5, 2018
Mono on i Project February 7, 2018

2/5/18 Binary Preview Package Notes and Instructions
2/7/18 Binary Preview Package Notes and Instructions

The Mono on i Project began porting Mono to PASE on IBM i on January 19, 2018.
There are still numerous bugs to fix, and the port is hardly production-ready
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to report issues to the Mono on i Project by opening an issue on our
GitHub page at <https://github.com/MonoOni/binarydist/issues>

## Changes in the 2/7/18 release

Attempting to run Mono on 7.1 resulted in error messages relating to mkdtemp.
We discovered that Mono's built in glib has an implementation of mkdtemp,
so we modified the code to use that instead. Please note that we have not had
the opportunity to test this on a real 7.1 system as of this time and would
appreciate feedback.

## Required system

Either AIX 6.1 TL9 or i 7.1. The JIT compiler will automatically adjust
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## Compile and run your first Mono program

* A sample "Hello, World!" program is included in
/opt/mono/samples/hello.cs * To compile it, you can either open a SSH
/opt/mono/samples/hello.cs

* To compile it, you can either open a SSH
session into a PASE shell, or, less optimally, CALL QP2TERM. Once you
are in the PASE shell, run the following commands to make the Mono
commands available to your shell:
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* Now, to run the program:

$ mono hello.exe

Hello from Mono for the IBM i!
$

* Similarly, you can compile a .NET program on Visual Studio for
Windows, copy it to your IBM i system, and run it using the "mono"
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