[Mono-dev] Recent xbuild fixes causing issues with finding mcs

[Michael Hutchinson]

No, this is not the same as launching exe files directly from the OS
using binfmt-misc.

If you launch an exe file *from Mono's implementation of
Process.Start*, Mono will detect managed executables and run them with
Mono automatically.

https://github.com/mono/mono/blob/master/mono/io-layer/processes.c#L808

On 16 February 2014 09:00, Michael Franz <mvfranz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 7:34 AM, "Andrés G. Aragoneses" <knocte at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 16/02/14 10:15, Michael Hutchinson wrote:
>> > ... which automatically executes exe
>> > files using Mono.
>>
>> Are you sure that statement applies to all distros? I read somewhere
>> some time ago that the only distro so far that implemented the ability
>> to run .exe files automatically by calling mono under the hood was
>> Debian (and derivatives), by installing some system hook by default when
>> mono packages are installed.
>>
>> Maybe Michael Franz is not using Debian? Or maybe that hook doesn't work
>> for him because he's using a custom mono install (instead of debian
>> packages)?
>
> I am using CentOS 6.5 with a locally built Mono installation.
>
> I have read about how you can modify the kernel to understand launching Mono
> applications - http://www.mono-project.com/Guide:Running_Mono_Applications -
> this was probably after I ran into this problem.  If this has become a
> requirement to use Mono for development it should probably be documented
> somewhere.
>
>
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