Re: Running .Net Natively on IBMi

Perhaps reviving an old project, such as DotGnu, may be a good solution, according to the site, it supports AIX ( https://www.gnu.org/software/dotgnu/ )

* "DotGNU Portable.NET
<https://www.gnu.org/software/dotgnu/pnet.html>, an
implementation of the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI), more
commonly known as ".NET", includes everything that you need to
compile and run C# and C applications that use the base class
libraries, XML, and Systems.Windows.Forms. Currently supported
CPUs: x86, ppc, arm, parisc, s390, ia64, alpha, mips, sparc.
Supported operating systems: GNU/Linux (on PCs, Sparc, iPAQ,
Sharp Zaurus, PlayStation 2, Xbox,...), *BSD, Cygwin/Mingw32,
Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX."

I have all the source in my GitHub ( https://github.com/bencz/DotGnu )

Alexandre S. Bencz

+55 {15} 997-980-511

On 11/01/2018 22:43, Nathan Andelin wrote:

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 10:59 AM, Richard Schoen <
Richard.Schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hey Kevin,

Changed the title for this response.

My objection to the new title is that I think that people should
distinguish between PASE and the "native" virtual machine environment.
Although there are a number of relevant integration points, PASE and IBM i
should be viewed as separate, side-by-side operating environments. They
have significant differences.

Given that PASE is a subset of AIX, IBM generally suggests porting first to
AIX, then to PASE. Unfortunately, .Net Core is not supported on AIX, nor
any other Unix, if I understand correctly. One reference suggests that it
is only supported on Windows, Mac, and a handful of Linux distributions.

https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/master/release-notes/2.0/2.0-supported-os.md

Actually, the differences between Unix, OS X, and Linux, are not that clear
to me. Frank Soltis suggests that there are only 4 server operating
environments in existence today, namely Z OS, IBM i, Windows, and *Nix.

If .Net Core were ever ported to PASE, I wonder from the perspective of a
system administrator, what additional effort that would entail in order to
support yet another language environment?