[Mono-dev] Support for Portable Class Libraries (PCL)

[Marek Safar]

Hi,
>
> Would you mind sending a link to the relevant issue on bugzilla so I 
> can track it?
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608069

Marek
>
> On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 1:32 AM, Marek Safar <marek.safar at gmail.com 
> <mailto:marek.safar at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>>     Microsoft has recently introduced support for Portable Class
>>     Libraries, allowing the same DLL to be reused for both .Net 4 and
>>     Silverlight 4 without recompiling the source.  There are
>>     restrictions on which APIs are available, and some minor API
>>     changes from their non-portable equivalents to gain consistency
>>     across the platforms.
>>
>>     http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/b0e0b5e9-e138-410b-ad10-00cb3caf4981
>>
>>     What additional development effort would be required for the Mono
>>     project to deliver equivalent Portable Class Library system
>>     library implementations, to be used as library references when
>>     compiling .Net 4 / Silverlight 4 portable code with gmcs?
>     We don't have Portable .NET profile. The first step would be to
>     create this build profile and probably use linker or hack the
>     compiler to strip all IL code as it's not needed. On top of that
>     runtime support for retargetable assemblies is needed. There is
>     already a bug report about this feature in bugzilla.
>
>     I think that's all what is needed.
>
>     Marek
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