[Mono-bugs] [Bug 70070][Nor] Changed - File not found exception lists incorrect native library

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Changed by tao@taoframework.com.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=70070

--- shadow/70070	2004-12-01 14:11:38.000000000 -0500
+++ shadow/70070.tmp.17329	2004-12-01 15:39:01.000000000 -0500
@@ -41,6 +41,32 @@
 
 ------- Additional Comments From vargaz@gmail.com  2004-12-01 10:16 -------
 Fixed in SVN.
 
 ------- Additional Comments From gonzalo@ximian.com  2004-12-01 14:11 -------
 Any reason to not fix this in 1-0 too?
+
+------- Additional Comments From tao@taoframework.com  2004-12-01 15:39 -------
+While this is itself a bug, the bigger issue to me is the single
+dllmap.  I mentioned to miguel what might be nice is to be able to
+provide a number of dllmap entries delineated by platform, to be
+chosen by the runtime host platform, for instance:
+
+<dllmap dll="foo.dll" platform="windows" target="foo.dll" />
+<dllmap dll="foo.dll" platform="linux" target="libfoo.so" />
+<dllmap dll="foo.dll" platform="osx" target="libFooApple.so" />
+etc.
+
+Or, perhaps, at least try the default native library before throwing
+an exception, for instance with Tao.OpenGl.dll I'd like to always
+supply the Tao.OpenGl.dll.config, which may look like:
+<dllmap dll="opengl32.dll" target="libgl.so" />
+
+With ms's runtime this is obviously ignored and opengl32.dll is used,
+on linux the libgl.so target would be used, however, on mono on
+windows, the override target will be attempted, it will not find
+libgl.so and throw an exception, leading to this bug report.  The
+solution is either to delete the config file, to implement something
+like above, or to try the override target, catch the file not found
+exception, then try the original dll, if that's not found, throw...
+
+Thoughts?