Mono for Android Console finnaly compiled

Yesterday I got it. Here you have the mono.tar.gz. (Edit: Now a working 2.10.9 version including the most important assemblies from the GAC compiled without FPU support. Use the runmono script, or it will search the gac somewhere else than in the same path. The pagacke has about 7, the extracted content about 18 megabytes)
Inside the tar.gz is a single binary called mono. It's the whole unmanaged part of the runtime. In theory you should be able to just place it and all required assemblies into your project output directory and run "./monorun myproject.exe"

The build script will come in a few hours.

So, what was the problem? The -static flag got just removed by libtool.
What was the solution?
make LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -all-static"

Let me explain. Because different architectures have different needs and abilities, there is a script called libtool which abstracts the platform specific flags, tools and whatever. It's design is, that make calls libtool instead of gcc, libtool modifies the arguments given and calls gcc by itself. So the -static flag was removed from the LDFLAGS. Why I can only guess, maybe because some architectures like solaris have a real problem with -static. Doesn't really matter, -all-static tells libtool to add the -static flag everywhere.
So why give the modded LDFLAGS to make instead of configure? The configure script tries out gcc's ability to build running binaries. But that without libtool, so gcc throws an "I do not know that flag" error. And why only the LDFLAGS? Libtool throws the same error if the argument -mode=link is not set.

When the build script is posted, you will see a bit frickling with -l and -pthread flags. Yep, that was a bit try & fail. In a static build, you need to add all used libraries and their dependecies with -l to the linker flags. But here you need to take care, it can happen that you get multiple definitions. My example here was a function existing in libc and libpthread. So I had to remove -lc and -lpthread and use the gcc implementation -pthread which resolves this problem by itself.
If you want to know which libraries are needed here, just go somewhere where you have the dynamic linked binaries and type "ldd mybinary", it will list the linked libs. the ld-linux.so you need not to and also cannot add, thats the loader which is not more needed when you link statically.

I will now try if Core Droid is working with this mono binary, and if yes go further with Disk Droid and App Droid.

Ralph

Edit: Tried Core Droid, it throws a few exceptions, because of that first I'll pack a mono-dev.tar.gz containing everything needed for remote debugging.