[Mono-dev] F# Interactive on Mono 2.8 (DefineDynamicAssembly troubles)

[Laurent Le Brun]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Rodrigo Kumpera <kumpera at gmail.com> wrote:
> CompilerContext is a special SRE mode that enables some extra features that mcs
> used to require. Since the 2.8 release mcs no longer requires it and this is going away
> for the 3.0 release. Else so, this is an internal flag that it's not meant for general use.
> The "Operation is not supported" problem is caused by F# using an instance of a TypeBuilder
> instead of a runtime type. Somewhere in the guts of mono' s SR(E) where doing something
> different from what F# expect and everything breaks.
> There is a bugzilla entry tracking this problem:
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=419828

Hi,

This bug is fixed in the last F# release (which has just been announced):
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dsyme/archive/2010/11/10/november-2010-f-2-0-free-tools-update.aspx

Linux packages are here: http://fsxplat.codeplex.com/releases/view/55463

-- 
  Laurent