[Mono-devel-list] Problem in compiling Class library in Windows while using SecurityPermissionAttr

[Sébastien Pouliot]

Sorry but I have no idea how __SECURITY_BOOTSTRAP_DB can affect other
assemblies. AFAIK only mscorlib requires it (but that could change in the
future).

I noticed that using this variable creates a .db file. So my best guess is
that this db is assembly specific (i.e. you cannot share it between multiple
assemblies). You can try:

(a)	building only corlib with __SECURITY_BOOTSTRAP_DB and other assemblies
without;

(b)	setting a different directory for __SECURITY_BOOTSTRAP_DB on each
assembly. However I don't know what other effects this can have on "normal"
assemblies.

Sebastien Pouliot
home: spouliot at videotron.ca
blog: http://pages.infinit.net/ctech/poupou.html


> -----Original Message-----
> From: vasantha selvi [mailto:vasanthp_2000 at hotmail.com]
> Sent: 23 mars 2005 08:24
> To: spouliot at videotron.ca; mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
> Subject: RE: [Mono-devel-list] Problem in compiling Class library in
> Windows while using SecurityPermissionAttr
>
>
> I was compiling the corlib using Microsoft .Net csc compiler. I tried ur
> suggestion too but I got a differenct side effect.
> I set environmental variable  __SECURITY_BOOTSTRAP_DB  to my top
> dir, I was
> able to compile corlib successfully but while compiling
> mono.security.dll.
> My ide itself got closed and I got some kind Internal compile
> error saying
> "error CS0587: Internal Compiler Error: stage 'BEGIN' while
> compiling other
> assemblies like mono.data.tds. Setting __SECURITY_BOOTSTRAP_DB
> only helps
> to build corlib but spoil building other libraries.Am I missing anything?
>
>
>
> >From: Sébastien Pouliot <spouliot at videotron.ca>
> >Reply-To: spouliot at videotron.ca
> >To: vasantha selvi
> ><vasanthp_2000 at hotmail.com>,mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
> >Subject: RE: [Mono-devel-list] Problem in compiling Class library in
> >Windows while using SecurityPermissionAttr
> >Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 09:24:16 -0500
> >
> > > I tried compiling Class library in Windows but I was not able to
> > > compile the
> > > class library completely unless I remove
> > > SecurityPermissionAttribute.cs file
> > > and all the usage of Security permission attribute is commented out.
> >
> >Hmmm... my guess is that by Windows you mean Microsoft's CSC
> under Windows
> >(and not Mono's MCS) right ?
> >
> > > I am getting compiler error " Assembly generation
> failed-security custom
> > > attributes cannot be referenced from defining assembly"
> > > Currenlty security permission attribute and environment
> > > permission attribute
> > > are extensively used inside class library and everything
> > > Is needed to be commented out to have complete build for the
> > > class library.
> > >  
> > > The same problem I found in case of older version of class
> > > library also.
> >
> >Yes that's an old "problem".
> >
> > > Why this problem is not yet fixed ?
> >
> >It was.
> >
> > > It would be really helpful to know the
> > > reason and solution to avoid the build errors.
> >
> >Well when/if you get a problem when building anything Mono related in
> >[insert your current setup] way (i.e. not using the Makefile supplied in
> >Mono) then you should take the time to read them. Like Hari said: "RTFM,
> >read the fine makefile, that is :-)"
> >
> >In this case you'll see that CSC 7.x (fx 1.x) requires something
> special to
> >compile mscorlib (note: this problem disappeared with CSC 8.x as the
> >security attributes are now encoded differently). You can see this in
> >/mcs/class/corlib/Makefile in the fourth line.
> >
> >export __SECURITY_BOOTSTRAP_DB$=(topdir)/class/corlib
> >
> >P.S. Look at the mailing-list archives if you want to know the "why".
> >
> >Sebastien Pouliot
> >home: spouliot at videotron.ca
> >blog: http://pages.infinit.net/ctech/poupou.html
> >
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