Build problems with XobotOS

Question

I am trying to build the XobotOS source code released by Xamarin on Github and I am using the guidelines provided in the README.build document in the root folder. I have been successful in executing all the steps mentioned in the readme but for some reason the second instance of eclipse does not generate anything. I'd appreciate any help I can get on this. Thanks.

Here are some other details which might be useful:

OS: Ubuntu 11.04
Eclipse: Eclipse SDK 4.2 (Juno)
Mono: ? (I am not sure I am probably using a hacked up version of it built from source)

In the meanwhile I will try to download OpenSUSE and give this a try again.

Answer 1

Ubuntu 11.04 includes a very old version of Mono.

I would try using Ubuntu 12.04 (or if that still fails, use direchtex's PPA with Ubuntu 12.04) or, as Lex Li already suggested, try openSUSE 12.1.

Answer 2

I too recently read about the same and after multiple attempts managed to build it half way. Below are the config that I have.

• Ubuntu: 12.04
• Eclipse: 3.7.2
• Mono: 2.10.8.1 (Both eclipse and mono from the Ubuntu repo itself)

Just followed README.build guidelines. Getting the eclipse/sharpen was quite difficult for me as well. With all the settings as mentioned, I was getting an empty output folder. Unchecked the build automatically flag and gave manual build. After that it worked for me. Building the C# code was straight forward. Yet to try building the Skiya and other libraries.

I had to do minor changes in XobotActivityManager.cs file to get it working. Changed the line below

if (now >= at) {
    ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem ((state) => control.Invoke (dispatch));

to

if (now >= at) {
    if(control.IsHandleCreated)
        ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem ((state) => control.Invoke (dispatch));

UPDATE I recently tried eclipse juno and it doesn't work anymore.