[Mono-dev] List of referenced assemblies

[Vassil Vassilev]

Is there any obvious advantage of ilmerge over adding all relevant files 
when building that library. I.e expanding the references. I can afford 
that because in our home-grown cmake csharp module keeps track of the 
dependencies.
Vassil
On 11/25/2013 04:58 PM, Greg Young wrote:
> Search for "ilmerge" it can do this after the compilation.
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Vassil Vassilev 
> <v.g.vassilev at gmail.com <mailto:v.g.vassilev at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>       Thanks for the answer. This seemed not to be the case with the
>     M$ compiler. I will double check today.
>       Is there any way to build 'fat libraries' (standalone) i.e to
>     tell the compiler to put everything that the library needs (of
>     course not mscorlib) in the library itself?
>     Cheers,
>     Vassil
>
>     On 11/25/2013 12:19 PM, Rafael Teixeira wrote:
>>     That is the rule because the compiler need to know the details of
>>     the Interface that is defined A because it is being used publicly
>>     as your public class implements it.
>>
>>     As assembly references aren't transitive you need to be explicit
>>     (to embed proper dependency versioning metadata) about which
>>     library you are referencing types from.
>>
>>     Note that if your type MyClass had just a private field of that
>>     interface type, for instance, of if MyClass was in the internal
>>     instead of public scope the compiler would not need to have
>>     access to library A, but nevertheless your running app would need
>>     to have it available to load and execute code in library B.
>>
>>     Hope it helps,
>>
>>     Rafael Teixeira
>>     O..:.)oooo
>>
>>
>>     On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Vassil Vassilev
>>     <v.g.vassilev at gmail.com <mailto:v.g.vassilev at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         Hi,
>>           A silly question:
>>           I have interface IInterface defined in a library A.
>>           I have a class(generic) MyClass, implementing that
>>         interface in library B.
>>           I have a user of MyClass (the place I do new
>>         MyClass<sometype>()), when trying to compile the code using
>>         MyClass it tells me that I need to include not only B but A
>>         as well. To me that is strange... Is there a way to
>>         workaround this problem? Am I doing something wrong?
>>         Many thanks,
>>         Vassil
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