Portable.NET

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Portable.NET

Stable release	0.8.0 / 2007-03-20; 2 years ago
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	.NET
License	GPL
Website	http://www.dotgnu.org/

Part of the DotGNU project, Portable.NET is a free software and open source software initiative aiming to build a portable toolchain and runtime for Common Language Infrastructure applications. The project focuses on compatibility with the ECMA-334 and ECMA-335 standards and support for .NET's base class libraries, XML, and Windows Forms. As of June 2009^[update] the latest release of Portable.NET is 0.8.0. The project supports a number of different CPU architectures and operating systems.

It was originally started by Rhys Weatherley, at that time director of Southern Storm Software, Pty Ltd. After Rhys Weatherley quit development of Portable.NET, Klaus Treichel, Aleksey Demakov, and Kirill Kononenko continued development and design of Portable.NET Just-In-Time compiler and libJIT Just-In-Time compilation library.

[edit] See also

• libJIT - A library by Rhys Weatherley, Klaus Treichel, Aleksey Demakov, and Kirill Kononenko for development of advanced Just-In-Time compilation in Virtual Machine implementations, Dynamic programming languages, and Scripting languages.
• Mono- a popular Free Software Microsoft.NET implementation.
• VMKit part of Low Level Virtual Machine toolkit as of version 2.3. Implements very incomplete and alpha stage support of a Virtual Execution System. It is based on DotGNU, Portable.NET corelib and class libraries.
• Ildjit- Another free software Virtual Execution System implementation based on DotGNU, DotGNU libJIT, and DotGNU Portable.NET corelib and class libraries. Implements very incomplete and alpha stage support of a Virtual Execution System. ILDJIT Intermediate Language Distributed Just In Time (ILDJIT) is developed by Formal Languages And Compilers Group Politecnico di Milano.

[edit] External links

• Portable.NET homepage
• Southern Storm homepage
• SourceLabs SWiK on DotGNU

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