[Mono-list] mono on FreeBSD, take 2

Garrett Rooney rooneg@electricjellyfish.net
Fri, 17 Aug 2001 00:45:35 -0400


On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 02:16:47PM -0400, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> 
> > it looks like monodis is working fine (at least its output for a test program
> > i wrote seems reasonable).  pedump seems to work, except it complains about
> > fields in the CLI header that should be 0 but aren't.  
> 
> The latest spec I have claims `These fields must be zero'.  I guess
> they changed their mind.  That warning is there just as a reminder
> that we should look at that once the new spec drafts come out.

well, that's good to hear.

> > i haven't looked into this closer, as i wanted to verify that i'm actually
> > following the right procedure to run this thing.  i built the class libraries
> > on windows, and copied corlibx.dll to /usr/local/lib/corlib.dll, since
> > mono-int seems to want corlib.dll to be there.  then i just ran mono-int
> > test.exe where test.exe is a simple c# program i wrote and compiled on
> > windows.  how's this so far?
> 
> That is excellent!
> 
> Maybe we should start compiling the class libraries and some sample
> programs and have them available on the web site for people to test.

that would be a good idea.  it would be much more convenient if the class
libraries were in the mono cvs, instead of over in the mcs tree.  a few simple
programs, and the binaries, along with expected output if the interpreter is
actually working would also be nice for people testing this stuff out.

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