[Mono-dev] Mono.lib on Windows

Wade Berrier wberrier at novell.com
Fri May 30 20:33:24 EDT 2008


Wow, libmono.a is 64MB, 15 MB compressed... :(  Um, maybe we could have
a win32 embedded Wiki page that describes this rather than ship 2 files
of that size in the installer?

Ideas or recommendations?

Wade

On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 18:23 -0600, Wade Berrier wrote:
> Just to be sure, this was using MSVC, correct?
> 
> I'll Update the script to make a copy of libmono.a -> mono.lib.
> 
> Thanks for trying this out and reporting!
> 
> Wade
> 
> On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 19:39 -0400, Bill Holmes wrote:
> > Wade,
> > 
> > I finally got around to testing using libmono.a as the library to link
> > on Windows and it work fine for me.
> > 
> > I did a simple test to call the first symbol I found in the include
> > directory.  (See below.)  I guess that is enough proof of concept.
> > 
> > So the answer to you questoin on Thursday to use libmono.dll.a or
> > libmono.a, the answer is libmono.a.
> > 
> > -bill
> > 
> > #include "stdafx.h"
> > extern "C"
> > {
> > 	#include "mono-path.h"
> > }
> > 
> > int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
> > {
> > 	mono_path_resolve_symlinks ("");
> > 	
> > 	return 0;
> > }
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