The MacCatalyst MonoVM runtime packs don't contain a dynamic libmonosgen-2.0.dylib

[rolfbjarne]

Description

The MacCatalyst MonoVM runtime packs don't contain a (dynamic) libmonosgen-2.0.dylib, only a (static) libmonosgen-2.0.a.

Listing of libmonosgen-2.0.* files for various runtime packs:

$ ls -la builds/downloads/microsoft.netcore.app.runtime.mono.*/6.0.0-preview.*/runtimes/*/native/libmonosgen-2.0.*    
-rwxr--r--  1 rolf  wheel  34178072 May 16 02:18:08 2021 builds/downloads/microsoft.netcore.app.runtime.mono.ios-arm/6.0.0-preview.5.21265.5/runtimes/ios-arm/native/libmonosgen-2.0.a*
-rwxr--r--  1 rolf  wheel  10238152 May 16 02:20:08 2021 builds/downloads/microsoft.netcore.app.runtime.mono.ios-arm/6.0.0-preview.5.21265.5/runtimes/ios-arm/native/libmonosgen-2.0.dylib*
-rwxr--r--  1 rolf  wheel  21717600 May 16 02:17:14 2021 builds/downloads/microsoft.netcore.app.runtime.mono.ios-arm64/6.0.0-preview.5.21265.5/runtimes/ios-arm64/native/libmonosgen-2.0.a*
-rwxr--r--  1 rolf  wheel   6189968 May 16 02:19:14 2021 builds/downloads/microsoft.netcore.app.runtime.mono.ios-arm64/6.0.0-preview.5.21265.5/runtimes/ios-arm64/native/libmonosgen-2.0.dylib*
-rwxr--r--  1 rolf  wheel  27566712 May 16 02:16:24 2021 builds/downloads/microsoft.netcore.app.runtime.mono.iossimulator-x64/6.0.0-preview.5.21265.5/runtimes/iossimulator-x64/native/libmonosgen-2.0.a*
-rwxr--r--  1 rolf  wheel   7407136 May 16 02:18:28 2021 builds/downloads/microsoft.netcore.app.runtime.mono.iossimulator-x64/6.0.0-preview.5.21265.5/runtimes/iossimulator-x64/native/libmonosgen-2.0.dylib*
-rwxr--r--  1 rolf  wheel  23208320 May 16 02:16:18 2021 builds/downloads/microsoft.netcore.app.runtime.mono.iossimulator-x86/6.0.0-preview.5.21265.5/runtimes/iossimulator-x86/native/libmonosgen-2.0.a*
-rwxr--r--  1 rolf  wheel   7006632 May 16 02:18:42 2021 builds/downloads/microsoft.netcore.app.runtime.mono.iossimulator-x86/6.0.0-preview.5.21265.5/runtimes/iossimulator-x86/native/libmonosgen-2.0.dylib*
-rwxr--r--  1 rolf  wheel  27412896 May 16 02:17:50 2021 builds/downloads/microsoft.netcore.app.runtime.mono.maccatalyst-arm64/6.0.0-preview.5.21265.5/runtimes/maccatalyst-arm64/native/libmonosgen-2.0.a*
-rwxr--r--  1 rolf  wheel  27876672 May 16 02:16:08 2021 builds/downloads/microsoft.netcore.app.runtime.mono.maccatalyst-x64/6.0.0-preview.5.21265.5/runtimes/maccatalyst-x64/native/libmonosgen-2.0.a*
-rwxr--r--  1 rolf  wheel  47773800 May 16 02:18:14 2021 builds/downloads/microsoft.netcore.app.runtime.mono.tvos-arm64/6.0.0-preview.5.21265.5/runtimes/tvos-arm64/native/libmonosgen-2.0.a*
-rwxr--r--  1 rolf  wheel  41037632 May 16 02:20:22 2021 builds/downloads/microsoft.netcore.app.runtime.mono.tvos-arm64/6.0.0-preview.5.21265.5/runtimes/tvos-arm64/native/libmonosgen-2.0.dylib*
-rwxr--r--  1 rolf  wheel  62337592 May 16 02:16:00 2021 builds/downloads/microsoft.netcore.app.runtime.mono.tvossimulator-x64/6.0.0-preview.5.21265.5/runtimes/tvossimulator-x64/native/libmonosgen-2.0.a*
-rwxr--r--  1 rolf  wheel  51003592 May 16 02:18:16 2021 builds/downloads/microsoft.netcore.app.runtime.mono.tvossimulator-x64/6.0.0-preview.5.21265.5/runtimes/tvossimulator-x64/native/libmonosgen-2.0.dylib*

Note how libmonosgen-2.0.dylib is present for iOS and tvOS, but not Mac Catalyst.

[rolfbjarne]

This is blocking us from bumping from to the P5 preview of .NET 6.

[rolfbjarne]

@directhex / @marek-safar we need this back ported to P5 as well.

[marek-safar]

@directhex could you please take care of that and submit a request for tactics approval

/cc @steveisok