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<unmush>anyone have any advice on bootstrapping microsoft's .NET runtime, library, C# compiler, or msbuild? I'm working on building the mono-5.0 series right now, but not sure where to go once it gets sufficiently new

<lanodan>Sure you're doing it with the various DLLs and other binaries removed from mono? Like for example with 6.12.0.122 <https://hacktivis.me/notes/mono-6.12.0.122_deblob.log> and Guix also noted blobs in their old version: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/55026

<unmush>yes, I'm sure, because I've gone all the way from pnet and deleted every blob I found at every step

<unmush>current chain: pnet --> mono-1.2.6 --> mono-1.9.1 --> mono-2.4.2.3 --> mono-2.6.4 --> mono-2.11.4 --> mono-3.0.12 --> mono-3.12.1 --> mono-4.9.0 --> mono-5.0.1

<lanodan>Oooh nice!

<unmush>the initial attempt at using pnet 0.8.0 to bootstrap mono 1.2.6 was pretty miserable

<unmush>because in what I like to imagine was an incredible inspired moment of language-lawyering, pnet 0.8.0 doesn't recognize += or -= as valid with pointer operands

<unmush>after eventually getting that working with a 2000-line patch, I discovered that development of pnet had continued for a fair bit of time after 0.8.0, and many of the most sorely-lacking things were fixed in the latest git version

<unmush>so I prepared a second patch set using pnet-git that only came out to around 600 lines

<aggi>fyi, https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/tinycc-devel/2024-11/msg00016.html

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