1 Mono(tm) Binary Kernel Support for Linux 2 ----------------------------------------- 3 4To configure Linux to automatically execute Mono-based .NET binaries 5(in the form of .exe files) without the need to use the mono CLR 6wrapper, you can use the BINFMT_MISC kernel support. 7 8This will allow you to execute Mono-based .NET binaries just like any 9other program after you have done the following: 10 111) You MUST FIRST install the Mono CLR support, either by downloading 12 a binary package, a source tarball or by installing from CVS. Binary 13 packages for several distributions can be found at: 14 15 http://go-mono.com/download.html 16 17 Instructions for compiling Mono can be found at: 18 19 http://www.go-mono.com/compiling.html 20 21 Once the Mono CLR support has been installed, just check that 22 /usr/bin/mono (which could be located elsewhere, for example 23 /usr/local/bin/mono) is working. 24 252) You have to compile BINFMT_MISC either as a module or into 26 the kernel (CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC) and set it up properly. 27 If you choose to compile it as a module, you will have 28 to insert it manually with modprobe/insmod, as kmod 29 cannot be easily supported with binfmt_misc. 30 Read the file 'binfmt_misc.txt' in this directory to know 31 more about the configuration process. 32 333) Add the following entries to /etc/rc.local or similar script 34 to be run at system startup: 35 36# Insert BINFMT_MISC module into the kernel 37if [ ! -e /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register ]; then 38 /sbin/modprobe binfmt_misc 39 # Some distributions, like Fedora Core, perform 40 # the following command automatically when the 41 # binfmt_misc module is loaded into the kernel. 42 # Thus, it is possible that the following line 43 # is not needed at all. Look at /etc/modprobe.conf 44 # to check whether this is applicable or not. 45 mount -t binfmt_misc none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc 46fi 47 48# Register support for .NET CLR binaries 49if [ -e /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register ]; then 50 # Replace /usr/bin/mono with the correct pathname to 51 # the Mono CLR runtime (usually /usr/local/bin/mono 52 # when compiling from sources or CVS). 53 echo ':CLR:M::MZ::/usr/bin/mono:' > /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register 54else 55 echo "No binfmt_misc support" 56 exit 1 57fi 58 594) Check that .exe binaries can be ran without the need of a 60 wrapper script, simply by launching the .exe file directly 61 from a command prompt, for example: 62 63 /usr/bin/xsd.exe 64 65 NOTE: If this fails with a permission denied error, check 66 that the .exe file has execute permissions. 67