[Mono-devel-list] Embedding Mono

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> - AFAIK, there is no "standard" embedding API for .NET such as JNI for
>   Java; so Mono has to define its own. Is it correct?

Yes, that is correct.

> - Such an API has not been designed yet, in particular one has to extract
>   from Mono source code one of the different ways to retrieve a method.
>   What is the priority of designing and implementing a documented API?
>   Is it something I can expect in the near future, or is it low
>   on the priority list?

Well, it is documented on the Web page on the Mono site.  If you need
specific documentation on a topic, let us know.  If you have specific
criticism, ideas, or things you would like to see, let us know, we are
happy to take developer input into this matter.

A problem we have now is that we lack a mechanism to document C APIs,
while we have a fairly good mechanism for C# based APIs (me refusing to
use Docbook and the associated tools also weights in).

> - the embedded-api doc mentions examples in a "mono/sample/embed"
>   directory. I can find only a "mono/samples/embed" directory,
>   with a single example. Are there other samples?

Paolo posted (check the Mono main page archive) a sample on doing
Perl/Mono embedding;  There is an old Gnumeric patch lying around that
did that as well.


> - Moreover, I don't succeed in building this sample. When I "mcs test.cs",
>   the compiler first issues a warning
>     cant resolve internal call to "MonoEmbed::gimme()"
>   and then fails with:
>     Your mono runtime and corlib are out of sync.
>     Corlib is: test

You can ignore the error;  We will remove it sometime in the future
(notice that the build actually succeeds). 

Miguel