Chris Hamons

Ahead of Time Compilation with Xamarin.Mac

As you might know, .NET applications by default do not compile down to machine code when you build. They compile down to an intermediate layer, called IL, that looks something like this:

Xamarin.Mac and netstandard2

Today is an exciting day in the .NET community as .NET Core 2.0 was released:

Step by step tracking down a macOS Beta regression

This morning a report came in that Xamarin.Mac Classic applications were broken on High Sierra (currently in Beta).

The standard .NET build system always does a complication pass when converting your C#/F# code from .cs files to binaries (.dll or .exe). It parses your code, converts it into IL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Intermediate_Language).

The “normal” .NET execution model then loads these binaries into memory and compiles…