[Mono-devel-list] Compiling to DLLs and then statically linking them into a PE

[Peter Williams]

On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 19:14, Vladimir Vukicevic wrote:
> This is a tangent, but what prevents you from using make to compile your
> C# programs?  You just end up skipping a step -- no .c -> .o ->
> executable, just straight .cs -> executable.
> 

Well, you'd think that this would be a lot slower, since every time one
source file changes, you have to recompile all of them.

But because C# type definitions are stored in binary .dll files, not .h
files, compiling C# code is much faster than compiling C code. We use
Vlad's method to compile the C# class libraries; corlib, which is at
least 200kloc and probably much more, compiles in ~15 seconds on my
machine.

Peter

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