[Mono-dev] Compiling System.Web with CSC

[Eyal Alaluf]

I ran the compiler with -nostdlib and gave it reference to .Net 1.1 libraries.
This did the trick.

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Ben Maurer wrote:

> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 13:52:48 -0400
> From: Ben Maurer <bmaurer at ximian.com>
> To: Eyal Alaluf <eyala at mainsoft.com>
> Cc: Kornél Pál <kornelpal at hotmail.com>, martin at ximian.com,
>     Noam Lampert <noaml at mainsoft.com>, Miguel de Icaza <miguel at ximian.com>,
>     Philippe Cohen <philc at mainsoft.com>, mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
> Subject: Re: [Mono-dev] Compiling System.Web with CSC
> 
> On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 19:34 +0200, Eyal Alaluf wrote:
>> Hi, all.
>>
>> We prefer the solution where mcs is generating pdb files. This solution is well aligned
>> with our strategy for the long term. In case the mcs/pdb project is not so simple and
>> easy to implement soon, we need to examine the shorter term solutions.
>>
>> Checking the approach of using .Net 2.0 compiler, I took a less hacky approach where
>> I analyzed the assembly created by .Net 2.0 compiler (using ildasm) and added to our
>> binary compiler the few new .Net 2.0 opcodes that were used. I will still need to see
>> how to read the PDB files of MS .Net 2.0, but this should be feasible.
>
> How are you guys handling generics in Array? In 2.0, array has methods
> like:
>
> public static int IndexOf<T> (T [] array, T value)
>
> Method overloading will redirect calls that before were non-generic to
> generic calls in 2.0.
>
> -- Ben
>
>