[Mono-dev] monolite URL

[Robert Jordan]

On 11.12.2014 07:33, Alex J Lennon wrote:
>> The thing to keep in mind is that the corlib version inside monolite
>> needs to match the runtime version or bootstrapping the classlib build
>> won't work, so you can't just keep an old monolite and use it to build
>> newer Mono (at least that's how I understood it).
>>
>
> This is also news to me and very helpful to know thanks. I am not
> disagreeing but I am surprised that we have to have an exactly matching
> build of monolite for this, whereas we don't  if using a "full-fat"
> Mono. I wonder why that is? Because monolite is very barebones just for
> bootstrapping purposes ?

Monolite (a mcs + basic BCL) does not contain a Mono
runtime. That's the reason why its corlib must match the
runtime that you are about to build.

On the other hand, a full Mono does not have this limitation
because it comes with its own runtime + BCL + mcs. These are
by design always in sync.

Robert