Native AOT

[Daniel15]

Does Eto support Native AOT? I'm looking at different UI frameworks that support Linux, but I'd like to be able to compile my app into a single, statically-linked executable file to make distribution easier.

[cwensley]

Hey @Daniel15,

Thanks for the inquiry. There has not been any work involving AOT with Eto, so likely some of the reflection and dynamic member access would have problems, but I haven't tested it. I have worked on adding the attributes that would be necessary for this to be better supported, but likely there'd be certain features that wouldn't work (PropertyGrid/PropertyCell, for example as it fully works on reflection)

This doesn't mean you can't distribute your app as a (non AOT) single file executable. You can usually trim all assemblies except Eto and your UI code which does produce a relatively small footprint.

Hope this helps.

[ris-work]

Does Eto support Native AOT? I'm looking at different UI frameworks that support Linux, but I'd like to be able to compile my app into a single, statically-linked executable file to make distribution easier.

I am also looking forward for the AOT compilation support. I can confirm that AOT compilation does neither work with WPF nor WinForms hello-world Eto application. Eto apps are still very responsive without AOT, though (did not notice much performance differences).

[trypsynth]

I too am waiting for Native AOT support in ETO, it's an absolutely amazing framework and being able to give my users a lean-and-mean, fully standalone binary with an ETO GUI in it would be incredible!