[Mono-dev] Mono.lib on Windows

[Geoff Norton]

If this is the case we shouldn't be shipping the .a at all, as its
fundamentally useless.

Has anyone ever looked at getting boehm to run on windows without
DllMain (*I assume this is what is needs/expects.  I didn't look at it
yet)

-g

On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 02:50 +0200, Robert Jordan wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> libmono.a is a static lib. As such, it's not suitable for embedding,
> regardless of the compiler: The GC on Win32 expects to be run
> from a dll. The sample below would crash if it would actually try
> more than this simple function.
> 
> libmono.dll.a is the correct library to link against *when using
> cygwin*, but for some reasons, this lib is not suitable for MSVC.
> I've already STFW but I was not able to find the reason of this.
> 
> The only way that works seems to be MS' lib tool:
> 
> lib /nologo /machine:x86 /def:mono.def /out:mono.lib
> 
> Robert
> 
> Wade Berrier wrote:
> > 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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