[Mono-dev] Making Mercury work with Mono

[Ankit Jain]

Hi,

Please file a bug at bugzilla.ximian.com for ilasm with a test case.

-Ankit


On 4/7/06, Jonathan Morgan <jonmmorgan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mercury is a logic programming language.  The researchers on it were
> paid by Microsoft to develop an IL backend, which works with the
> Microsoft .NET framework.  I am currently trying to make it work with
> Mono.
>
> The Mercury build process first compiles all Mercury code to IL.
> Foreign code can be specified as any of IL, C# or Managed C++, and
> this will be placed into separate C# or MC++ files.  IL files are then
> compiled to modules, the C# and MC++ files are also compiled into
> modules, and then these are all linked into an assembly with al.
>
> Mono ilasm builds all the IL files correctly, but then, when it tries
> to build any of the C# files, it crashes with the following error
> messages:
>
> ** (C:/Programs/Programming/Mono-1.1.12.1/lib/mono/1.0/mcs.exe:2312):
> WARNING **: The following assembly referenced from
> C:\cygwin\installs\mercury-compiler-0.12.2\tmp_dir\library\bool.dll
> could not be loaded:
>
>      Assembly:   mercury    (assemblyref_index=0)
>
>      Version:    0.0.0.0
>
>      Public Key: 228c167d12aa0b0b
>
> The assembly was not found in the Global Assembly Cache, a path listed
> in the MONO_PATH environment variable, or in the location of the
> executing assembly (.).
>
> ** (C:/Programs/Programming/Mono-1.1.12.1/lib/mono/1.0/mcs.exe:2312):
> WARNING **: The class mercury.bool.bool_0 could not be loaded, used in
> mercury, Version= 0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
> PublicKeyToken=228c167d12aa0b0b
>
> This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
> Please contact the application's support team for more information.
>
> It seems to me that the problem is that MS csc allows the use of
> addmodule to build up assemblies, but Mono mcs doesn't.  It is failing
> because it is trying to load the (completed) assembly mercury, when in
> fact it is in the process of building that assembly, and modules that
> form part of the assembly are referencing other modules that form part
> of the assembly.  I don't think that proper multi-module/single
> assembly building can be achieved without this feature.
>
> Also, it seems that Mono ilasm produces complete assemblies, whereas
> MS ilasm produces modules.  This means that if you try and use Mono
> generated DLLs with MS csc it fails, stating that the dll is not a
> module.  This too is not going to facilitate multi-module/single
> assembly building.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Jon
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