[Mono-dev] Looking to programmatically build assembly with Mono.CSharp

[Brandon Perry]

Interesting, will definitely take a look this weekend.

Though now I wish I hadn't put this off last weekend haha. Would have had
an extra day.


On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Miguel de Icaza <miguel at xamarin.com> wrote:

> It is not hard to do.
>
> It will take someone a couple of hours to figure out what needs to be
> exposed.
>
> In addition, I just realized something important.   Mono.CSharp is
> compiled with the System.Reflection.Emit backend which has several
> problems, you are better off compiling your own Mono.CSharp.Batch for
> example that uses the IKVM.Reflection backend (which is what the mcs.exe
> batch compiler uses).
>
> Miguel
>
>
> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Brandon Perry <bperry.volatile at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Oh, not a problem at all. I currently invoke the compiler via Process,
>> but was hoping to get away from that.
>>
>> Thanks for the quick response. :)
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Miguel de Icaza <miguel at xamarin.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> The interface surfaced by Mono.CSharp does not provide what you want.
>>>
>>> It is designed to generate code for runtime evaluation.
>>>
>>> You could hack the existing source code to achieve something similar, it
>>> is not too hard, but it was never a priority.
>>>
>>> Miguel
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Brandon Perry <
>>> bperry.volatile at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Looking to do something similar to this blog post here, but with
>>>> Mono.CSharp, and not Microsoft's CSharp. I haven't found any documentation
>>>> on this specifically, but there are posts about interpreting C# at runtime
>>>> via repl.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dohollan/archive/2010/08/09/programmatically-invoke-the-c-compiler.aspx
>>>>
>>>> Anyone have a small code example? I would prefer to not have to write
>>>> the code to the file system if possible, Just pass a string of code and
>>>> have it result in a byte array of the assembly that I can then write to the
>>>> FS.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance for any thoughts!
>>>>
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>>
>>
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