[Pkg-mono-devel] F# application hanging on Linux when running via Mono

[Jo Shields]

On Thu, 2014-07-17 at 16:01 -0700, andresp wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to target a Linux box while developing an F# application on
> Windows.
> 
> Right now I have a working version of one of my experiments which runs fine
> on Windows (VS and Xamarin), but when I try to run it on Linux (mono
> output.exe) it doesn't work as expected.
> 
> The application starts normally but when it calls an external module which
> uses async methods and await ( Link to the relevant class
> <http://soundcloud.codeplex.com/SourceControl/latest#trunk/Source/ApiLibrary/SoundCloudClient.cs> 
> ), it seems to hang the execution indefinitely (no error is printed to the
> console).
> 
> Is this a Mono limitation? Is there any way to validate if some code/library
> is incompatible with Mono (Linux)?

You probably want a more appropriate mailing list, this list is for
packaging of Mono for Debian - you're not using any of our packages, so
your problems aren't something we can help with