[Mono-dev] Referring to libraries on the command line

[Russell Wallace]

That works, thanks!

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Tom Spink <tspink at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Russel,
>
> Did you say you were using make?
>
> If so, you can be clever in make like this:
>
> ///
> LIBS := $(wildcard *.dll)
> REFS := $(foreach LIB,$(LIBS),-r:$(LIB))
> ///
>
> Then, you can use $(REFS) on the gmcs command-line, like this:
>
> gmcs ... $(REFS) ...
>
> (where the ellipses is your already existing command-line)
>
> This will populate all the DLLs in the current directory into LIBS,
> then generate the references command-line in REFS.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Tom.
>
> On 14 July 2010 07:16, Russell Wallace <russell.wallace at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm trying to compile a program with gmcs, which wants references to
>> all libraries in the current directory. Normally one would specify
>> this with *.dll, but because gmcs wants a prefix of -r: in each case,
>> this breaks. Is there any way to obtain this effect, e.g. some way to
>> expand a wild card and then prepend a prefix to each expanded name?
>> (Ubuntu Linux, make under bash, if it matters.)
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> Tom Spink
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