I am having trouble at getting the example "QuickJournal" to compile on iOS. The code compiles OK, but fails during the Fody step.
Try out the example application for .NET through the following - Pull the repository - Open the solution in examples/QuickJournal - Compile and test
Smooth compilation & testing experience
Fody out of memory exception
See the setup, follow steps I am using the latest Xamarin/Visual Studio Mac/XCode
The regular realm source code
git clone https://github.com/realm/realm-dotnet.git
git checkout 8f5e36ffd91e06b9c60b91f9de3fb312b411a4a4
The exception I am getting is
Fody: Found debug symbols at '~/realm-dotnet/examples/QuickJournal/QuickJournal/obj/Debug/QuickJournal.pdb'.
MSBUILD : error : Fody: An unhandled exception occurred:
MSBUILD : error : Exception:
MSBUILD : error : Out of memory
MSBUILD : error : StackTrace:
MSBUILD : error : at (wrapper alloc) System.Object:AllocVector (intptr,intptr)
MSBUILD : error : at Microsoft.Cci.Pdb.MsfDirectory..ctor (Microsoft.Cci.Pdb.PdbReader reader,
See log file RealmCompilelog.txt
Realm 1.2.1 addresses that by using an updated version of Fody.
Answer for older Realm versions: This is caused by a Cecil bug with Mono 5.0. As Realm depends on Fody, which uses Cecil, compilation will fail for project referencing it. Until new Cecil and Fody versions are released, the workaround is to revert to Mono 4.8: