Compile error: Protocol/MessageReader.cs(579,25): error CS0208: Cannot take the address of, get the size of, or declare a pointer to a managed type `T'

[DavidNielsen]

I've been attempting to compile 0.8.0 on my Mac but it fails with the following output.
hub.com/DavidNielsen/bockbuild

2013-11-07 10:36:58: Building dbus-sharp on python-posix (4 CPU)
+ /Users/gnomeuser/Documents/Projekter/bockbuild-timo/profiles/banshee/build-root/_install/bin/tar xf /Users/gnomeuser/Documents/Projekter/bockbuild-timo/cache/8eaea9441901d411974e55cde896df33838f3b69 -O > /dev/null
+ using cached source: /Users/gnomeuser/Documents/Projekter/bockbuild-timo/cache/8eaea9441901d411974e55cde896df33838f3b69
==> 2013-11-07 10:36:58: Preping dbus-sharp
+ /Users/gnomeuser/Documents/Projekter/bockbuild-timo/profiles/banshee/build-root/_install/bin/tar xf /Users/gnomeuser/Documents/Projekter/bockbuild-timo/cache/8eaea9441901d411974e55cde896df33838f3b69
+ cd "mono-dbus-sharp-8eaea94"
==> 2013-11-07 10:36:58: Building dbus-sharp
+ ./autogen.sh --prefix="/Users/gnomeuser/Documents/Projekter/bockbuild-timo/profiles/banshee/build-root/_install"
configure.ac:8: installing './install-sh'
configure.ac:8: installing './missing'
Makefile.am: installing './INSTALL'
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... ./install-sh -c -d
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... no
checking for awk... awk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... yes
checking for pkg-config... /Users/gnomeuser/Documents/Projekter/bockbuild-timo/profiles/banshee/build-root/_install/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for MONO... yes
checking for gmcs... /Users/gnomeuser/Documents/Projekter/bockbuild-timo/profiles/banshee/build-root/_install/bin/gmcs
checking for gacutil... /Users/gnomeuser/Documents/Projekter/bockbuild-timo/profiles/banshee/build-root/_install/bin/gacutil
checking for xbuild... /Users/gnomeuser/Documents/Projekter/bockbuild-timo/profiles/banshee/build-root/_install/bin/xbuild
checking for Mono.Posix.dll... found
checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating dbus-sharp-2.0.pc
config.status: creating src/AssemblyInfo.cs
config.status: creating src/Makefile
config.status: creating tools/Makefile
config.status: creating examples/Makefile
config.status: creating tests/Makefile
+ make -j4
Making all in src
/Users/gnomeuser/Documents/Projekter/bockbuild-timo/profiles/banshee/build-root/_install/bin/xbuild /nologo /verbosity:quiet dbus-sharp.csproj
/Users/gnomeuser/Documents/Projekter/bockbuild-timo/profiles/banshee/build-root/_install/lib/mono/4.0/Microsoft.CSharp.targets: warning : A circular reference was found involving the import of '/Users/gnomeuser/Documents/Projekter/bockbuild-timo/profiles/banshee/build-root/_install/lib/mono/4.0/Microsoft.Common.targets'. It was earlier imported by '/Users/gnomeuser/Documents/Projekter/bockbuild-timo/profiles/banshee/build-root/_install/lib/mono/4.0/Microsoft.CSHARP.Targets'. Only the first import of this file will be used, ignoring others.
/Users/gnomeuser/Documents/Projekter/bockbuild-timo/profiles/banshee/build-root/_install/lib/mono/4.0/Microsoft.CSharp.targets: warning : A circular reference was found involving the import of '/Users/gnomeuser/Documents/Projekter/bockbuild-timo/profiles/banshee/build-root/_install/lib/mono/4.0/Microsoft.Common.targets'. It was earlier imported by '/Users/gnomeuser/Documents/Projekter/bockbuild-timo/profiles/banshee/build-root/_install/lib/mono/4.0/Microsoft.CSHARP.Targets'. Only the first import of this file will be used, ignoring others.
Protocol/MessageReader.cs(579,25): error CS0208: Cannot take the address of, get the size of, or declare a pointer to a managed type T' Protocol/MessageWriter.cs(431,26): error CS0208: Cannot take the address of, get the size of, or declare a pointer to a managed typeT'
make[1]: *** [dbus-sharp.dll] Error 1
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

[RavuAlHemio]

Same problem here. Apparently it isn't legal to take the address of a value of a managed type; the Mono C# compiler has only recently become strict enough about it.

[LascauxSRL]

Hi,
I've just added a Pull Request to fix this issue.
Here is the url of the pull request: #30
Try if this works for you.
Thanks

[RavuAlHemio]

Yup, seems to have fixed it for me.