[Mono-dev] Running MCS Tests on Windows

[Scott Wisniewski]

So, what do I need to change in order to get gmcs to bind to the mono
runtime?



On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Marek Safar <marek.safar at seznam.cz> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  I updated to change # 149641, re ran autogen.sh, ran make, make install
>> and tried running the tests again and it still failed.
>>
>> I think it might be related to a problem with "make install". Looking
>> back, I remember this happened last time and I overlooked it.
>> When I run make install after running make, gmcs throws an exception.
>>
>> I attached a debugger, and the problem appears to be inside CodeGen.Init,
>> at the call to DefineDynamicAssembly. It is oring in an extra 0x800 into the
>> access parameter that is passed in.
>>
> This indicates you are running Mono C# compiler using Microsoft .NET
> runtime which is not supported.
>
>
>> I looked into the mono implementation of AssemblyBuilder, and it looks
>> like the flag is being used to signal to AssemblyBuilder that the call is
>> coming from inside the mono c# compiler.
>>
>> The problem, however, is that GMCS is binding to the MS implementation of
>> mscorlib, not the mono implementation, and so the extra flag is invalid.
>>
> Correct, you are missing mono.exe executable prefix somewhere or your gmcs
> script is broken (pointing to invalid location?).
>
>
>> In the gmcs source, if MS_COMPATIBLE is defined, the extra value won't be
>> ored in.
>>
>> Obviously it's not defined.
>>
>> The bug could be either:
>>
>> 1. That MS_COMPATIBLE is not set
>> 2. Or, that make install is binding to the MS framework implementation and
>> not the mono framework implementation
>>
>> I do have mono installed on the machine, and it is included in the cygwin
>> path.
>>
> Setting cygwin path is for mono executable and not gmcs.
>
> Marek
>
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