"k kestrel" fails with 'libdl' on Mono 3.8.0 for Samples/HelloWeb

[ahmetb]

I'm on Debian 7.6 with freshly released Mono 3.8.0 installed, I am trying to run Samples/HelloWeb application. I did the kpm restore step and now I will run the applicatio.

Now, if I try running with k web that gives error discussed in #107, so I'm using k kestrel and I am just getting output "libdl" and it exits with code=1 immediately.

$ k kestrel; echo ExitCode=$?
libdl
ExitCode=1

This seemed hard to debug to me at this point. Any pointers?

Mono JIT compiler version 3.8.0 (tarball Thu Sep  4 12:22:04 UTC 2014)
Copyright (C) 2002-2014 Novell, Inc, Xamarin Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
    TLS:           __thread
    SIGSEGV:       altstack
    Notifications: epoll
    Architecture:  amd64
    Disabled:      none
    Misc:          softdebug
    LLVM:          supported, not enabled.
    GC:            sgen

[davidfowl]

Kestrel doesn't work on Linux out of the box add yet

[ahmetb]

Oh, I wasn't aware. Is there any web sample you can suggest to try out on Linux?

[andrewaggb]

well, I'm not much further along than you, but this should help

switch to the dev feed so you can install alpha4
KRE_FEED=https://www.myget.org/F/aspnetvnext/api/v2
kvm install 1.0.0-alpha4-10353

clone a sample using nowin (different webserver than kestrel), look at the project.json to see how it selects a different webserver
git clone https://github.com/davidfowl/HelloWorldVNext.git
cd HelloWorldVNext
kpm restore
cd src
cdr helloworldweb (something like that, I don't recall the exact name)
k web

[ahmetb]

@andrewaggb yep that does help, thank you! I guess I will stick with this example for now.